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Vol. IX, No. I

Macomb, Illinois, June i, rf>n.

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PROGRAMME.

r rocessional, "The Purple and Gold."

Invocation Rev. Joseph Jenkins.

Chorus, "The Heavens are Telling." Creation
(Haydn).

Address Mr. William Hawley Smith.

Presentation of Country School Training Certi-
ficates . .Miss Caroline Grote, Dean of Women.

March, Schubert. .Mrs. Hursh and Miss Dunsworth.

Presentation of Academic Diplomas

Mr. Hursh, Vice Principal.

Kaiser March, (Wagner) Mrs. Hursh,

Mrs. Johnson, Miss Dunsworth, Miss Dallam.

Presentation of Piplomas Hon. Louis H.

Hanna, President Board of Trustees.

Normal March Orchestra.

Violin Solo, Selected Mr. Roy Stocker.

Presentation of Post Graduate Certificates. .The
Principal.

The Normal Song Chorus.

Chorus, "Vale," (Barnby).

Benediction, "God be With You Till we Meet
Again," (Toner).

Recipients of Country School Train-
ing Certificates.

(Not Diplomas).

Sara L. Armstrong Milan

Mary V. Banfill Bushnell

Vesta Beckmeyer Quincy

L'ertha Bonwell Macomb

Mae Carey Rushville

Charlotte Carmack Colchester

Vera M. Catlin Roseville

Hattie L. Dennison Carthage

Mae Ebert Fountain Green

Elsie Pauline Goeke. . . . Bushnell
Pearl G. Huddleston.. Blandinsville

Reba Marie Jones Plymouth

Ruth A. Legere Macomb

Eunice E. Ralston Cameron

Blanche M. Scybert. . Marne, Iowa
Grace E. Seward. . . .Fountain Green

Ethel Shover Hermon

Elizabeth Lyle Sigler. . . . Rushville

Olive B. Simpson Augusta

Sarah E. Stiltz Tallula

Louise C. Switzer Macomb

Clarissa A. Taylor.... Camp Point

O. Clayton Thomson Marietta

Hazel Cory Wade Lima

Academic Class of 1011.

Graduates who will receive the
diploma June 1, 1911.

Beulah Angell Rushville

Mauiine Baily Lew'istown

Grace Cordell Macomb

Harold Damron Macomb

Pearl M. Davis Browning

Charles Elliott Fisher. . . . Macomb

Maurice Foster Macomb

Nellie Graham Adair

Harold E. Gumbart Macomb

Hazel F. Holton Plymouth

Daniel William Jeffries.. Marietta

Eva Lessman Camp Point

Iva McDonald Macomb

Stella B. McMillan Table Grove

George C. Mapes Macomb

Junia Marrs Sciota

Edna L. Metcalf Macomb

Ross Nichol Hadley

Alice Robertson Macomb

Jerry Standard Vermont

Lela Terrill Colchester

Howard G. Thompson.... Macomb

Caroline Walker Macomb

E. Wayne Wetzel Macomb

Fiances Lora Wilson....: Tennessee

Grace M. Wyerman Macomb

Eva McMillan Macomb

Wilbur C. Pendarvis Media

Roy M. Sallee Gerlaw

Graduates who will receive the
diploma at the end of the summer
teim:
Charles L. Burgoyne. . . . Andalusia

Simon Simonson Smithshire

Earl Willson Colchester

Class of 1011.

Graduates who will receive the
diploma in June.

Inez M. Avery Macomb

Ralph T. Bishop Canton

Loretta E. Braun Macomb

Helen Chandler Macomb

Agnes Crawford Macomb

Lauretta E. Finlay.. Burlington, la
Margaret M. Finlay. . Burlington, la

Lola E. Foster Rapatee

Hayes M. Fuhr Macomb

Louise Hainline Macomb

Martha McLean Macomb

♦Eva M. McMillan Macomb

Edith Moody Moline

* Alice Morris Viola

♦Edith B. Motter Bowen

♦Garnet Payne Industry

♦Wilbur O. Pendarvis Media

A. Marshall Roberts Berwick

Harold H. Roberts Macomb

*C. Ruth Swartz.... London Mills

♦Fairfax S. Townley Macomb

♦Clara Upham Macomb

Maude L. Van Antwerp. . . Vermont

Gladys O. Vawter Macomb

Mary E. Williams Littleton

♦Thesis.

Graduates who will receive the
diploma at the end of the summer
term:

♦Birdio Brown Macomb

Anna Culver Canton

Harriet A. Mcllhenny . . . . Macomb

Roy M. Sallee Gerlaw

Fannie L. Stevens Macomb

Post Graduate Course.

(Domestic Science).
Irene Bassett Sterling

Recipients of Post Graduate Certi-
ficates.

Alice Barrett, Lewistown, class 1909
Annette Baxter, Astoria, class 1908
Grace L. Birdsall, Swan Creek, class
1906.

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Eula E. Cordell, Macomb, class 1907
Lois K. Cordell, Macomb, class 1907
Gladys Fishleigh, Macomb, class 1908
Garnet Gllfry, Macomb, class 1908
Laura Van Duyn Hanson, Sterling,

class 1909
Lllace M. Kldd, Astoria, class 1908
Mary Kirk, Macomb, class 1909
Cyrus W. Lantz, Brooklyn, class 1909
Fena Nordwall, Abingdon, class 1909
Edith Van Winkle, Avon, class 1906
Mabel Walker, Macomb, class 1907
Prentice Walters, Macomb.class 1909

The Post Graduate Certificates.

To obtain the post graduate cer-
tificate, a graduate of this school
must have shown superior ability
to teach, to manage a school, and
other evidence of professional
growth. He or she must also have
developed the habit of working in
harmony with supervisors and asso-
ciates, and habitual interest in the
work of pupils, some power of ini-
tiative or resourcefulness, and have
maintained a high social standing in
the community. Evidence of these
things must not only be sufficient,
but the testimony must be substan-
tially unanimous on the part of all
those who ought to know, and then
the teaching must be verified by the
actual observation of a member of
the Normal School faculty.

The school is anxious to confer
this certificate upon as many as pos-
sible of its graduates. One practi-
cal difficulty is to find time on school
days to make the actual inspection.
Whatever one may hear apparently
to the contrary, this certificate has
never been refused to any one of
our regular graduates. Sometimes
the conflicting nature of the testi-
mony has made it necessary to de-
fer it. No inferences of any kind
should be drawn from that. Per-
haps sometimes, though we think
rarely, the certificate has been pre-
maturely given. That, of course, is
an error. Its value consists mainly
in the steady work and growth which
is almost absolutely necessary to
secure it. It is the highest commen-
dation this school can give.

Did it ever occur to you that the
man who began at the eleventh hour,
and still got the penny, may have re-
ceived fair compensation because he
worked during the last hour, and
was in at the finish? One of the
weaknesses of our nature is to stop
before the end of the journey is
reached.

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The Training School.

Because of the room available for
training school purposes the number
of pupils taken is necessarily limited.
Applications for admission to the
training school should be filed with
Miss Hamilton. Admissions will be
made in the order of application.
This rule is invariable. Pupils who
get the most benefit from the train-
ing school are those who enter in
the first or not later than the sec-
ond grade and continue at least to
the eighth. In confidence it may be
stated between the reader and the
writer that we really do not like to
admit any students to the grades
above the fourth, nor so very well
to the third and fourth grades. We
do so frequently, of course, and very
often draw prizes in that way, but
the training school likes best the
pupils who can come young and take
the entire elementary course. It has
been the practice to allow pupils
graduating from the eighth grade to
go on into the academy if they wish,
but we do not recommend that they
do so. That matter is left entirely
to the judgment of the parents, our
own opinion being that It is best for
a community to keep its high school
up to the highest attainable stand-
ard. To do that frequently requires
the attendance of all who are of
high school age. Up to a certain
point the number of students affects
tht quality of a school, and it is one
of the most important duties of a
good citizen to interest himself in
his home high school and do any-
thing whatsoever which may be in
his power to make it the best pos-
sible.

Correspondence Work.

A good deal of correspondence
work has been done by summer stu-
dents during the past year, some of
it very systematically and quite sat-
isfactorily. The school will continue
for one more year to take the best
care it can by correspondence, of stu-
dents who are necessarily absent for
a time. This work is offered more
particularly to students who go
away to teach for a time, students
who have graduated, and students
in the summer term who have begun
a course which they wish to com-
plete. If this line of work continues
to grow it may be necessary to put
some one in special charge of It and
carry It on more systematically than
it is possible when it Is given as an
extra by the regular instructors. All
that has been done so far has been
b request.

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Board of Manager*.

Senior . Louise Hainlin*

Junior George Salisbury

Academy George Mapes

Tenth Grade Jennie Walker

Ninth Grade Lena Culp

Training School.. Myrrhene Newsome

Platonian W. O. Pendarvis

Emersonian Warner Watson

Country School Class

Wallace Shanks

Kappa Phi Gamma .. Martha McLean
Faculty. .Mr. White, Mr. Hursh,

Miss Davii
Ex-Officio Mr. Bayllsa

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASST. EDITOR

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

Yearly Subscription 50c

Single Copies 5c

Printed in Manual Arts Print Shop
Vol. IX Thur. June I, 1911. No. 1

Advertising Rates — One Insertion:

Per Line 5c

Per Inch 25c

The One Mill Tax.

The Forty-seventh General Assem-
bly did itself proud by voting a one-
mill tax for the benefit of the Uni-
versity of Illinois. This is a good
move in the right direction, or rath-
er, a good beginning (at the wrong
end) of a good thing to do. The
legislature might do much worse
than to provide for a corresponding
tax of a fraction of a mill for the
maintenance of the five normal
schools. But the re al thing whlcfi
would be better than either of these
would be to provide for the full two-
mill tax for the benefit of the com-
mon schools. That would be be-
ginning the right thing at the right
end. If the University of Illinois
can use one mill, the million child-
ren in the public schools ought cer-
tainly to be helped to the extent of
two mills. The five normal schools
could get along very handsomely on
the proceeds of one-half mill, pro-
vided they were equitably divided.
If the legislature should see fit to
make the millage for education a
round tax of four mills, the other
half mill could be added to the al-
lowance for the common schools.
Then the account for education
would stand:

For the University one mill.

For the five Normal Schools, one-
half a mill.

For the Common Schools for all
the children of all the j>eople, two
«nd one-half mills.

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i. y such an arrangement the uni-
versity would have enough, the nor-
mal schools plenty, and the common
schools about half what they should
leceivc from the State at large. Not
less than one-fourth of the cost of
common schools ought to be paid by
the State at large.

The Colledge Lectures.

Dr. Colledge's course consists of
fi\<> lectures on Scotch Literature,
t( g< ther with one and perhaps two
extras. One of the extras will be a
talk on Tropical Africa, based on
his experiences as one of Stanley's
assistants in the search for Living-
stone. The other will be his char-
acteristic lecture on "Second Fid-
dles." This lecture alone will be
\>orth a forty-mile trip to Macomb.
The Scotch Literature series will be:

1. Scctbch. Literary •Characteris-
tics.

2. Robert Burns, the Poet of
Democracy.

3. Robert Louis Stevenson, the
Story Teller.

4. James Barrie and his books.

5. Ian MacLare n and Drum-
tochty.

The Cobnrn Players.

Weather permitting, all lovers of
the drama will have an opportunity
to enjoy a rare treat. "The Canter-
b'iry Pilgrims" is based upon the
prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, which it would be well to
read before coming]. "Much Ado
About Nothing" will be the matinee
July 1, and in the evening "Mac-
beth." The tickets for the course
have been placed at the very low
figure of $1.50 for the three per-
formances; single; tickets for any
o' the three will be 75 cents.

The Coburn Players were already-
booked for forty of the most promi-
nent universities in the country some
weeks ago, and many of the leading
normal schools. We are particularly
fortunate in being able to get them
at Macomb. The time is June 30
and July 1.

Who Should Attend the Summer
School.

First. — The summer school is or-
ganized and intended to be of ser-
vice to working teachers of exper-
ience who wish to spenl six weeks in
working up any one subject in which
they are particularly interested, or
in the study of a group of subjects.
Their interests are the first consider-
ation.

Second. — Young beginners as
tecahers. The business of the sum-

mer term is to help this class of
teachers in every possible way both
individually and collectively. Their
interests are second to those of the
experienced teachers only in order of
enumeration. These two groups of
teachers are the persons for whom
the summer term is especially con-
ducted. If it were not for the duty
and the desire of the Normal school
to be helpful to them its regular year
would be forty weeks instead of
thirty-six, and there would be no
summer term.

Third. — A class of teachers who
may belong to either of the fore-
going groups and who will become
very much more numerous in the
near future, who wish to prepare for
the next eaxmination for state teach-
ers' certificates. Normal school
graduates who do not notice the pro-
visions for them in the state examin-
ations are unwise in their day and
generation. The state certificate
classes will be a very important di-
vision of the summer term work
from now on.

Fourth. — Young persons prepar-
ing to teach who have never before
held a county teacher's certificate.
For such students classes are organ-
ized in each of the common branches,
and care is taken, while giving them
a review of the subject matter, to
give as many suggestions as possible
in regard to the use of the state
course of study. This course is used
in practically every good country and
village school as well as in many
of the more highly organized city
schools. It is a working manual.
The young teachers will be well re-
paid for any trouble they take to be-
come familiar with it before enter-
ing upon their first term's work in
teaching.

Fifth. — Regular normal school
students who may wish to make up
work lost by reason of unavoidable
absence during the regular quarters.
As much will he done to oblige this
class of students as possible.

Sixth. — Students of near by high
schools who have "flunked" in some
of their work which they might as
well as not hav« done, have some-
times applied for admission. Such
students can only be admitted and
assisted as far as convenient, and
then only when they seem to have
recovered their right minds. On the
other hand studemts who have lost
time by sickness or other equally
good cause are allowed to join the
classes and are helped to the best of
our ability. The student body will
be made up for the most part of
these classes of students, together

with a few experienced teachers who
come for the purpose of looking on
and picking up in their own way any
ideas which may seem to be of use
to them. All who come with the pur-
pose of taking a part in the business
o" the school will be welcome and
aided to the best of our ability ac-
cording to their needs.

The Summer Term.

The six weeks summer term will
open June 12, a week from next
Monday. lb is intended that it
shall be a good one — very likely the
best in the history of the school.

Twenty professional courses are
offered in many of which it will be
possible, by taking double time, to
earn a Normal School credit, in
others half a credit can be earned,
and, by good students, the other
half made up by correspondence
work.

Sixteen academic courses are of-
fered, several of which will be given
two periods daily, if desired, and in
each of which credit will be given
in the ratio of time and work accom-
plished, to one credit for ninety
hours work.

More than twenty special and re-
view courses are offered for good
measure. The review courses are
intended more particularly for young
students and those who have not
ye' obtained their first teaching cer-
tificate. In pronouncing the word
"review," accent strongly the first
syllable of the word.

A list of courses can be had on
application, although the 6,000 cop-
ies of the complete announcement
for the summer term have all been
distributed.

There are a number of special
features this year. Among them
will be a called meeting held July
7 at ten o'clock, for the purpose of
planning and organizing one or more
Open Country Clubs for Western Il-
linois. Every county superintendent
in the Military Tract and adjacent
to it will be invited to be present,
and to bring with him as many work-
ers for social betterment of the
country districts as he can induce to
come.

There will be a Country School
Exhibit, under the direction of Miss
Mamie Thomson, of near Biggsville,
Illinois. The premium list can be
had upon application to her or to
the principal of the school at Ma-
comb.

The annual Spelling Match will
occur Thursday evening July 6.
Open to all students in attendance.

The Colledge Lectures on Scotch

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Literature to be given from the 26th
o the 29th of June will be of great
interest to all, and of special value
to students of English literature.

The Coburn Players from New
Ycrk City will be here June 30th
and July 1st. Their Macomb reper-
toire includes "Much Ado Abont
Nothing," "Macbeth," and "The Can-
terbury Pilgrims;" all to be given
in the open air, if weather permits.

The Elementary School will be in
session every morning during the
summer term. Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday afternoons the
Supervisors of Practice will hold
conferences on methods, based upon
observed work in the grades. The
special work to be observed ana dis-
cussed each week will be announced
Monday mornings.

Program ctf Summer Term, 1911.

(Subject to change).
8:00.

Psychology — Mr. McGilvrey.

Advanced Algebra — Mr. Ginnings.

Advanced Physiography — Mr. Bas-
sett.

Zoology — Mr. Johnson.

Physics (Mechanics)— Mr. Drake.

Household Arts — Miss Colby.

Intermediate Arithmetic — Mies
Grote.

Arithmetic, 8th grade — Mr. Mc-
Connell.

Arithmetic, 7th grade — Mr. Tay-
lor.
8:50.

Grammar — Mr. Hursh.

Observation — Mr. McGilvrey.

Solid Geometry — Mr. Ginnings.

History — Mr. Dickerson.

Geography — Mr. Bassett.

Physics — Mr. Drake.

English — Miss Davis.

Blackboard Sketching — Miss Buck-
ner.

Latin — -Miss Hanna.

Grammar — Miss Grote.

Physiology — Miss Corbin.

Grammar — Miss Coffey.
9:40 Chapel.
10:10.

English — Mr. Hursh.

Mathematics — Mr. Ginnings.

Geography — Mr. Bassett.

Botany — Mr. Johnson.

Physics (Laboratory) — Mr. Drake.

English — Miss Davis.

Drawing (Methods) — Miss Buck-
ner.

Latin — Miss Hanna.

German — Miss Olson.

History — Miss Coffey .

Plane Geometry — Mr. Taylor.

History — Mr. Dickerson.
1 1 :00.

logy — Mr. Bayliss.

English — Mr. Hursh.

History — Mr. Dickerson.

Geography — Mr. Bassett.

Botany — Mr. Johnson.

Physics (Laboratory) — Mr. Drake.

Didactics — Miss Grote.

Physiology — Miss Corbin.

Civics — Miss Coffey.

Physical Training Methods — Miss

Lamkln.
2:00.

English — Mr. Hursh.

History of Ed. Prin. of Teach. —

Mr. McGilvrey.
Advanced Algebra — Mr. Ginnings.
Illinois History — Mr. Dickerson.
Advanced Agriculture — Mr. John-
son.
Chemistry (Recitation) — Mr.

Drake.
Music — Miss Shamel.
Algebra — Miss Hanna.
History — Miss Olson.
Bookkeeping — Miss Griffin.
Arithmetic — Mr. McConnell.
2:50.

Civics — Mr. Bayliss.
Solid Geometry — Mr. Ginnings.
Nature Study — Mr. Bassett.
Chemistry (Laboratory) — Mr.

Drake.
Blackboard Drawing — Miss Buck-

ner.
Manual Arts — Mr. White.
Didactis — Miss Grote.
Ancient History — Miss Olson.
History — Miss Corbin.
Agriculture — Miss Coffey.
Primary Methods — Miss Hamilton.
3:10.

Solid Geometry — Mr. Ginnings.
Physics (Recitation) — Mr. Drake.
Reading — Miss Davis.
Construction — Miss Buckner.
Orthography and Penmanship —

Miss Griffin.
Playground Work — Miss Lamkin.

Concerning Concrete.

Mr. McGilvrey, Supervisor of Prac-
tice, has shown that he knows some-
thing about concrete. Mr. White,
Instructor in Manual Training, also
has practical knowledge of that mat-
ter. It is anybody's guess whether
the practical knowledge of these two
gentlemen, re-enforced by every man
and boy in school next year, shall
result in a new greenhouse, a gym-
nasium for boys, a model country
school house, or seats for the out-
door amphitheater for which we
have been waiting.

The best track meet seen here in
some time was held on the Normal
field last Friday. It was the annual
inter-class affair and yielded more
interest than usual, because the

track men were very evenly divided
]>> t w^en the Normal and Aacademy.
In fact the meet wa a so closely con-
tested that the score was tied two
o: three times during the afternoon.
Just before the beginning of the re-
lay race, the Normal and Academy
were even in number of points. This
made the relay decisive and it was
run with determination by both
teams. Sorenson for the Normal man-
aged to pass Foster for the Academy
after the later had a few feet lead
and thus won the banner for the
Normal department. This makes the
fifth year in succession that this class
has had something to do in the win-
ning of the banner.

The Library.

We believe the library of this
normal school is one of the best se-
lected libraries for its purpose in the
country. May be we are not well
enough posted to be too positive
about this but we do think so. Cer-
tainly it is true that no privilege
rpen here during the summer term
is more used nor used to better ad-
vantage by the more experienced
teachers, especially those who do
not have good library facilities at
hand where they work.

Before you leave for the summer,
for the year, or forever, stop at the
Manual Training room and look at
the fine pieces of furniture that have
been made there by students. There
are nine or ten library tables fit to
grace any man's library, besides sev-
eral piano stools, taborets, plate
racks and smaller articles.

The Principal's address to the
graduating class was given in the
auditorium last Sunday evening at
eight o'clock. The crowd was small
m account of the rain, which pre-
vailed about this time.

The pageant Friday afternoon was
a success from every standpoint.
Miss Lamkln and Miss Parrish de-
serve much credit for the work done
in drilling the people wh o took part
\xk the program. The Athletic asso-
ciation was aided much in a finan-
cial way.

The ball game our boys played at
St. Albans with the Military Aca-
demy there resulted in our defeat
by the score of 16 to 2.

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SECOND-Cl

15S MATTER MAR. 3. I908.

INOIS UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS

THE MEANING OF ORDERLY
EDUCATION.

Train up a child in the way he
should go; and even when he is old,
he will not depart from it.

— Proverbs XXII: 6.

Habit is the deepest law of hu-
man nature. — Carlyle.

Wherefore I perceive there is
nothing better than that a man
should rejoice in his work (s) for
that is his portion.

— Ecclesiastes 111:22.

The latest Gospel in this world is
Know tin work and do it * * *
That will be thy better plan — Car-
lyle.

The reign of Solomon marked the
climax of the physical power of the
kingdom of Israel. Never before or
alter that historic forty years (977
to 9 3 7 B. C.) was it strong enough
to ally itself on equal terms with
such nations as Egypt or Assyria.
David left an overflowing treasury,
which Solomon, though a liberal
spender, knew how to replenish. The
Hebrew confederacy was kept in-
tact through the entire period by
favorable alliances, such as the early
marriage with Pharaoh's daughter,
and the league with Hiram, king of
T JTe — "ever a lover of David."
Tiibutes of gold and silver, raiment
a;;l armor, horses and mules, "a
rate year by year," was exacted from
weaker neighbors. Great cities, like
T; Amor in the wilderness, (Palmy-
ra) were founded, and great fleets
were built which opened new routes
of commerce to the far east and
westward to lands beyond the pil-
lars of Hercules.

Solomon, youngest son of David
—and Bath-sheba — was a great ad-
ministrator of government, a ma-
rine merchant prince, a great build-
er, and a dazzlingly magnificent king.
His throne was of ivory, his indi-
vidual drinking cups of gold, and
he "made silver to be in Jerusalem
as stones." "He exceeded all the
kings of the earth in riches and wis-
dom." He built the temple for
which David had prepared, but
which he dared not build, and it
was "of fame and glory throughout
all countries." He, himself, and
not Zadok the high priest recited,
and perhaps composed, the dedica-
tion prayer — "noblest utterance of
'>ed of Israel" — setting forth

the nearness and the distance of
Him who hears and answers the
prayers of men for wisdom and
righteousness. "He gave peace unto
Israel all of his days." "And all
the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which
God had put in his heart."

What a pity that in his old age
he broke the covenant and forgotthe
ancient law. For he sorely op-
pressed the sojourner, (Exodus
XXIII: 9.) and became a selfish,
luxurious oppressor of his own peo-
ple, lading them with a heavy yoke.
chastising them with whips, and,
dying, left nis soon to be disrupted
kingdom to a son who threatened
to chastise them with scorpions.
H s later life fell short of the ideal
of his youthful dream at Gibeon,
and the lofty prayer recited by him
at the dedication of the temple.
* * *

: at "he spake three thousand
proverbs." Several hundred of them
have been preserved to this day.
In form some of them are epigram-
matic, some are sonnets, some are
clusters gathered about a common
theme, but much the greater num-
ber are independent couplets of
verse, wholly unconnected — wisdom
in the most compact verbal form.
They deal with every aspect of
practical every day life. Thus
"Train up a child in the way he
should go; And even when he is old
he will not depart from it,"
is a condensed statement of the
whole pedagogical purpose of the
primary school, as sufficient now as
it was three thousand years ago. The
difference is, that while the import-
ance of wise, early training was rec-
ognized by the son of David and
Bath-sheba and a few of the leading
elements that surrounded him, it
has now become part of the social
consciousness of every progressive
nation in the world. It may well
be questioned whether Solomon,
with all his power of prevision,
ever imaged in his active mind the
counterpart of such an institution as
a twentieth century primary school.
He more likely had in mind the di-
rect obligation of parents which had
so sadly failed in his own case. That
institution, now dividing the most
important of all social responsibili-
ty s with the best, and hopelessly at-

tempting to carry the whole burden
of the worst homes, was passed on
to the twentieth as the greatest so-
cial achievement of the nineteenth
century — though, as we are begin-
ning to perceive, with its right re-
lation to progressive civilization
imperfectly understood.

* * *

With all its shortcomings, no oth-
er institution of modern times is
more vitally related to progress.
KeligioD, morality, and democracy
are all dependent upon it for
their conservation and continuous
growth.

* * *

What is the meaning of organized,
purposive elementary education (a)
from the standpoint of society seek-
ing self-preservation and justice,
and (b) from the standpoint of the
individual for whom it is the chief
duty of society to make life more
abundant and happy?

Within certain almost ascertain-
able limits, the character of a man
is built upon the foundations laid
ii childhood. It goes without say-
ing that in a form of society at all
like our own the school must be in
harmony with and, under normal
c( nditions, supplementary to the
home. For the first few years of a
child's life whatever is done for him
is resultant, chiefly, from those two
forces. Homes differ, and schools
are by no means equally efficient.
Po it is idle to expect equal or uni-
formly equivalent results. There
should be a fundamental likeness in
kind. The aim thus becomes of pri-
mal y importance. What should it be?
1 do not think it is merely arithmetic
and language, nor "culture for cul-
ture's sake," nor to get a living by
one's wits rather than earn it by
one's hands. If, in our school or-
ganization, we divided the twelve
grades intotwo sixes instead of three
fours it might well be conceded that
training is so far of the first im-
portance that, in comparison, our
customary standards of measure-
ment of results might be nearly or
quite disregarded. Training and
teaching are not the same things,
though each is involved in the oth-
er to some extent. Training may
be the source of our supreme
strength, or, if perverted, our most

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pitiable weakness. It has to do
with those elementary acts of every-
day life, economy in the perform-
ance of which is absolutely essen-
tial to the man who would get things
done. It is needed in the highest
possible degree by each individual
unit in a democratic state which
has social consciousness enough to
wish to perpetuate itself. Training
is, or includes, the process of orderly
habit forming. "Habit is the deep-
est law of human nature." It is not
a "second nature." It is first nature
increased ten, twenty, or a hundred
fold. That mixture of sand, cement
and water which, when freshly com-
pounded would have taken any form
the skilled workman desiired, you
may tramp upon now, but you can-
not impress it. With hammer or
pick or dynamite you may smash it,
or a child may peck and nick and
vex it with his roller skates, but
otherwise there it stays, smooth and
hard. It is an adult. A child is
like the concrete in its plastic stage.
This plastic period of life is the
habit forming, or training period.
It is not a long, though a gradually
lengthening one. Many things can
be done during this period which
cannot be done as well later, and
some things can be done then which
are absolutely impossible ever af-
ter. For the practical purposes of
school and home training we may
ray that the useful habits are all
those which enable one to do right

or necessary things in the easiest
possible way. If it is desired that a
coming man should obey the ten
commandments, it is far better to
train the child, who is father of that
man to obey than to say them while,
during his plastic period, he is be-
ing trained in the general "habit" of
obedience — the first universal duty,
law, and destiny of man. The child
must acquire this habit, or, in due
time, the man will break or be
broken for lack of the power to
obey.

Truthfulness is a second elemen-
tal habit, training in which is as
important as it is difficult. It is a
mental attitude which must be de-
termined early in life, or never;
and without it the life is likely to
be lost.

"Bread of deceit is sweet to a
man; but afterwards his mouth
shall be filled with gravel."

(XX:17.)
A third fundamental habit is dil-
igence.

"Seest thou a man diligent in his
business? He shall stand before
kings; he shall not stand before
mean men."

Herein is the germ of happiness in
so far as we may expert to realize it
in this life.

If, while this physical health is
cared for, and while he is being
taught to read, write, cipher and sing,
and trained to walk, talk, sit and
stand; to respect his elders, be kind
to his companions, the manners of
civility, and the like conventional and
commonplace things upon which we
are all agreed, so that he does them
all without conscious attention to the
processes — automatically, economi-
cally, and without pain, a sixth grad-
erhasalso achieved the three import-
ant but rather complex habits refer-
red to, there has been something do-
ing both in his home and school dur-
ing the first twelve years of his life.
The foundation of social efficiency
has been fairly well laid. He has
within himself the ability to learn
his trade, and to follow it up with
the least posssible wear and tear,
leaving the widest possible margin of
force to expend upon the develop-
ment of his personality and powers.
He has been measurably well trained
in the way he should go. The good
beginning which is the most import-
ant part of every work has been
made.

A good beginning! Alas, that so
many who might be given that much
training fail to receive it! Fortu-
nately there are no longer any in-
fluential forces in society openly in

favor of keeping part of the people in
a lower state oi Intellectual develop*

n;i nt for the purpofc' ->: oi mechanical
toil and for t lie advantage of the in-
tellectual elite. (Kirchensteiner itj.)
Theoretically, it lea--;;, everybody now

sees the social necessity of <-lenie.i-
tary school training. Fortunate in
many ways, are you whose work will
begin with and continue to be for the
younger children. Whoever else may
lie in error, you will be in your dtttj
—the first duty of the State in edu-
cation until it is universally well
done for all.

It has recently been said by a jrreat
German thinker and organizer "f
whom I shall say more directly, '.ha'.
"Only that State is healthy and can
thrive which unceasingly endeavor.;
to improve the individuals who com-
pose it." Here in Illinois the lack or
co-ordination in our educational sys-
tem leads to results that fall short
of our professed belief. Less than
six per cent of our school enrollment
get any direct benefit from the grad-
es called "high," and less than one
per cent get through them. Between
a third and a half of the school popu-
lation has io free high school oppor-
tunities. This, in reality, is not quite
so bad as it sounds, but for the twen-
tieth century, in this country, it is
bad enough. The upper six grades
have not yet fully arrived. Now it
would be an unjust reproach upon
the citizenship of Illinois to suggest
that a respectable minority thereof
believes that the welfare of the State
is prompted by an educational or-
ganization which operates to keep
great numbers in a lower state of in-
tellectual development than the con-
ditions of modern community life tp-
quire. The worst that truthfully
could be said is that we do not come
up to our own standards. Herein
lies the problem in equity: How can
our organization of education be so
changed that all children can be got-
ten through the "grades," and most
of them, — all who will, — receive the
further advantage of the instruction
and training afforded by the "high"
school, or its equivalent in a better
form? If to do were as easy as to
say what were good to be done, this
would be as easy as to transform ev
ery cottage into a house and every
chapel into a church. But it is th
educational task just before us. It
will not be easy, and he who would
venture to predict that it will be ful-
ly accomplished in his lifetime must
needs be very young or very optimis-
tic. Yet how can a far-seeing demo-

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cratlc otaic, anxicus to safeguard and
pi rpetuate itself, be content with a
complete cessation of orderly educa-
tion for the great masses of its peo-
ple at the early age of fourteen
years?

Circumstances alter cases. Ameri-
ca is not Europe. Bavaria is not Il-
linois. But that little German state,
since the foundation of this (so much
admired)) building was laid has giv-
en one director of education a chance
to earn his statue in its most famous
city. Munich has forty-three differ-
ent continuation schools for her ap-
l rentices obliged to leave school at
(he end of the compulsory period,
tvehe more for unskilled workers,
—day laborers and errand boys, and
hoys without occupation. In these
Bchoolfl instruction is given from eight
to ten hours a week,— in daylight, —
by masters and journeymen, and es-
pecially prepared professional teach-
ers. Attendance is compulsory dur
ing the entire period of apprentice
ship, and employers are cheerfully
and effectively eo-o|>eratins with the
plan. At first opposed, they have
come to see that it is not only right,
but greatly to their business advan-
tage, for the instruction is so given
as to make better men and citizens
and better artisans at the same time.
In 1908, in that city of 600,000 in-
habitants there were 7 200 appren
tice pupils, and voluntary extension
classes for 2600 journeymen. AH
this required provision for 300 class-
es, and cost the city of Munich that
year a million marks. ($250,000).
Not long ago I had the advantage of
hearing Dr. Georg Kirchensteiner
tell how it was brought about. His
story was like a m? jestic epic told by
its hero, a man "* * * strong
in will to strive, to seek, to find, and
not to yield."

Old England will be doing some-
thing of the kind before many days.
There is now pending in the British
parliament a bill with this preamble
"The object of this bill (of March 16,
1909) is to make school attendance
compulsory for all children not ex
ceeding fourteen years of age, and
also to make attendance at day con-
tinuation schools compulsory for ali
children whose age exceeds fourteen
but does not exceed seventeen years,
who are not otherwise being syste-
matically educated. * * * The
system of continuation schools which
this bill seeks to enact, is practically
the same as that which is in success-
ful operation in Munich."

The Commercial club of the city of
Chicago has for some time had its

agent, in the rerson o: Supermten
dent Edwin G. Toole 1 , Investigating

the. i educational systems of Europe
with a \iew to learning what, if any-
thing, might profitably be imported
to America, and very lately, in pur-
suance of the same plan, has perform-
ed a great public service by publish-
ing and circulating Dr. Kirchenstein
er's essay on "Education for Citizen
ship." The argument of the essav is
that education must be carried for-
ward in some suitable form thru the
critical years of adolescence, and sets
forth his method of dovetailing it in-
to industry by the co-operation of ed-
ucational authorities, parents, and
employers of labor. The Munich plan
could not be transplanted to Illinois
without modification, but its princi-
ple is adaptable to any American
State, in the country as well as in the
crowded centers of manufacturing in-
dustry. The Kirchensteiner concep-
tion of the larger meaning of elemen-
tary education is not merely "to save
the State, or to extend trade, or to
increase the technical skill of the
workmen, but to do all three by mak-
ing better men and women than here-
tofore. This is done by showing them I
the relation of their work to other
work, and teaching them how to find
the happiness which comes from do-
ing better work in the spirit of the
"service which is freedom." There
is testimony amounting to evidence
that the Munich plan has been so
carried out as to give to the artisan
some of the artist's joy in his work,
— that joy which comes from th^
clearest well-spring of happiness
from which man, in this world, is
permitted to drink. "There is noth-
ing better than that a man should
rejoice in his work."
* * *

The whole business of education is
to help a man find his work — the
work he can do best, and to adjust "
to his worthy ideals The first busi-
ness of socety is to see that all men
who have found their work are paid
fair wages, that the lowest wage of
any man who contributes to social
stability or progress is sufficient to
secure to him all the necessaries of
a decent living, a share of the com-
forts, and a modicum of leisure for
rational enjoyment, — to see to it that
no man is unjustly handicapped in
the pursuit of happiness.

It will fall to some of you, I am
sure, to add in some way to the in-
adequate provision of the elementary
school for some of your pupils. We
expect you to do it in such a way as
to help hasten the coming of the day

R hen the social consciousness of Il-
linois will be as clear concerning the
value of the last four grades of the
common school as it now is as to the
necessity for the first six or eight.

The tendency of our age is toward
democracy and peace. Triumphant
democracy means peace. Both de-
mand the leadership of the ablest and
best. These must be found by selec-
tion before they can be put in au-
thority by election. Without so much
training as has been hinted at, wide-
ly diffused, wise selection is un-
thinkable. Without wise and just
leaders democracy is a ship without
a rudder. As a ship without a rud-
der is helpless, so a rudder without
a ship is useless. "Change kings
with us. and we'll fight you again,"
roared Sarsfield, or one of his men,
after the panic ef the Boyne. His-
tory records many lost battles the
result of which might have been re-
versed by a change of leaders.

There is not time today to spenk
of education for leadership. Let us
leave that for another June time.
Sufficient now to say that all parti
of the system must be related, and
that the growth must begin at the
roots. In our practical educational
procedure this is not always remem-
bered. There is continuous tinker-
ins by these of the forms and pro-
cedure and material of elementary
education, by those of the high
schools and colleges, and by still
"'hers of the technical schools and
universities; just as though any one
of these parts could be separated
nom the others and stand alone.
What society requires, of course, is
the greatest possible number of
highly efficient men and women of
ncter, and it is of the first im-
portance to remember that their
production and discovery depends
upon the right training and educa-
tion of ALL the young. Right here
is where many of our statesmen and
some of our leaders in education are
iort-sighted or selfish. A great
public university is a conspicuous,
highly centralized, and well organ-
ized special interest. It is easy to
focus public attention upon it, and
its needs are often considered and
supplied without due consideration
of the "lower" schools upon which
its continued existence depends. Yet,
if we do not keep a trail to it, lead-
ing from the door of every little red
school-house, so clear and open that
every youth in the state may walk
therein as far as his will and
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his journey be contributory to bis
individual ami social efficiency as a
citizen, how can the maintenance of
;. public university be justified at
all?

Xot that all who follow the trail
must iueds follow it all the way.
Illinois is not Utopia — yet. For a
longer time than any of us can
foresee, no matter how open the
trail, nor how hospitable the invi-
tation, nor how well adjusted the
parts of our educational system, the
great majority of our youth must
continue to develop their individual
qualities and characters in the col-
lege of hard knocks, by courses of
study and work for which no me-
diaeval degrees are conferred. Hav-
ing in view the inseparable inter-
ests of society and the individuals
who compose it, what might our sys-
tem of education be made to do for
this majority, in the meantime, if
its parts were assembled and ad-
justed?

As for us, those who follow the
trail, and those who leave it here
alike, our happiness will be founj
in our work — or else nowhere. Our
work as teachers is to transform as
well as we know how, potential in-
to varying degrees of dynamic ca-
pacity. Who knows but that it may
be the rare fortune of one of us
deal, in its fair seed time, with a
human soul whose destiny it is to
b< ci nie a genius — a great leader, or
bett< r yet, a gr at SERVANT of
men? We need not envy this for-
tunate one in advance, however. In
all probability she will not know it
herself at the time — or ever. Ge-
nius is rarely recognized in its lar-
val stage; in its intermediate stag<
we are apt to call it unseemly
names, for the cuticle of a cocoon
is tough and its internal organs are
undergoing destructive changes. As
it emerges it is often wet and be-
draggled. When it spreads its
wings to fly we may not be looking,
and it is off before we have time to
notice whether it is a butterfly or a
moth.

Our work is to be with common
children, in the common schools of a
great militant democracy. The spirit
of our democracy cries aloud for
more yeomen — more and more com-
mon men of high character; men who
ran see, and understand, and touch
•■lbows in yeomen's service for civic
righteousness, industrial lair play,
and plain economic justice. The "uni-
versal brotherhood of man" is unat-
tainable until all men are fit for bro-
therhood. In striving to make them
raining, and discipline,

and Inatrui i Ion ; In ti a< b
know justice when they see it. to
rightly usi the equal opporl
which it is the business of democrat
to give, the common school mu t c<
tainly be doing the will of the
versa! Father of us

This is our work. Let us r<
in it and do it as well as we i an
That will be our better plan.

The Summer School people have
the advantage over the regulars in
the way of -x delightful campus. The
flowers and shrubs are corning out
now in a gorgeous manner and will
continue so for several weeks.

Frances Bays, '10, has a position
for next year in the Canton public
schools. Also Anna Culver of thie
year's class has been engaged at the
same place.

Bula Cordell, 09, who was fo-
lia ve taught in a Country Training
School near Old Normal, has seen fit
to take the principalship of the Ma-
comb Fourth ward school, since the
Old Normal people coild not com-
plete arrangements for the school in
question.

The Coburn Players are billed for
three plays at the Kirksville Norm?
School June 28 and 29. The tragedy
t "Romeo and Juliet," the comedy
"As You Like It," and "The Greek
Tragedy "Blectra," will be given in
the open air theater on the Kirks-
ville campus. The Index says: "The
company is composed of twenty-five
expert actors of Shanespearean and
other dramas, and ranks second to
none in America. They are on their
seventh annual tour, and their boon
ings are larger than for any previ-
ous season." This seems to indi-
cate that the summer students and
citizens of the city as well have a
rare treat in dramatics coming June
30 and July 1.

The city of Macomb not only pave
the streets that need paving the most
but improve the job every time a new
portion is laid. The concrete curbing
is very attractive and serviceable as
well.

The view west on \dams street
from the walk in front of the building
is pleasing to the eye since the exten-
sion of the pavement in that vicinity.

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Courier brings greetings from
a year of hard w<jrk and per-
haps well spent energy.! ho«e
who are new to us are prob-
ably new to the Courier, it is
the business of this paper to
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and furthermore the school
expects you to enter into the
activities of the institution
with the feeling that you are
a part of it and responsible
for the continuation of the
good nane it has thus far mer-
ited.

After the events of Thursday.
June 1, our baseball team took quite
an extended trip. The first game
was played at Canton, Mo., with the
team rpresenting Christian Univer-
sity. Here they met defeat by the
score of 11 to 2. The boys enjoyed
a trip on the .Mississippi from Canton
to Quincy and from there took the
i train for Augusta, where they played
I a game of ball Saturday afternoon
with the team from the high school
there. This was cne of the best
games played during the season.
The usual nine innings were not
sufficient to give either team the
right to claim the victory, so an ex-
tra round was played, which gave
our boys the victory at the rate of
4 to 3.

Circular No. 25, issued by the
Simplified Spelling Board, is a speech
given by William H. Maxwell, city
superintendnt of school, New York,
discussing "The Need of the Reform
of Spelling in Public Schools." The
simplified spelling movement is
progressing rapidly and all teachers
should be familiar with its work.
Any information may be received by
writing to the Simplified Spelling

Why not organize a baseball team
for the summer? The weather is the
best, the field is in good condition,
th<> boys need the exercise, and the
ladies need the excitement of watch-
ing tlic game.

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ILLINOIS UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS

The O. C. Club.

Over a hundred students and
teachers responded to the call for a
preliminary meeting of the Open
Country Club last Thursday evening.
A temporary organization was ef-
fected by choosing Dean Grote chair-
man. Miss Mamie Thompson of Hen-
derson county secretary, and Miss
Eula Cordell, with the temporary
officers, as an executive committee.

Short talks were made by Misses
Cordell and Grote and Mr. Bayliss.
Miss Hamilton told an exquisite
story illustrating the triumph of
mind over matter in the Willow
Creek district back in Livingston
county. It was agreed that the ex-
ecutive committee should make up
Uie program for this evening from
questions submitted during the
week by members of the club, an 1
that the permanent question, "How
shall we proceed to so increase the
number of 'standard' country schools
in the Military Tract that this splen-
did agricultural section of our state
shall lead all other Normal School
districts in this respect?" This
question is going to be answered
within the next month, and within
the next year the thing is going to
be DONE!

All under the blue canopy we need
to muke this come true is the co-
operation of our county superintc
dents.

Superintendent

you not join in this good and neces-
sary work, and prove your earnest-
ness in the matter by attending the
conference at Macomb,

JULY 7 and 8?
This invitation is sent you by one
o f your teachers, who wishes to help
you in any possible way to give
• county more good coun-
try school houses and better schools
than it now has. Come and lead us
in this work. We know how busy
you are with those reports, but
there are young teachers here, at
some sacrifice of time and money,
seeking inspiration and knowledge
to enable them to help you do more
"T the country schools of our county
than has ever been done before in
a single year. Pray do not leave
us of your county without a leader. I

The program of the club for this
evening is as follows:

Topic— Improvement of the physic"
al environment of a County School.

Mr. Johnson.

Mr. Hursh.

Mr. Head.
Chorister Glenn Head

Dr. Colledge's course of lectures
in Scotch Literature will be given
June 26, 27, 28, 'and 29 — one each
day, as follows:

1. Scottish Literary Character-
istics, June 26, at ten o'clock.

2. Robert Burns, the Poet of
Democracy, June 27, at nine o'clock.

3. Robert Louis Stevenson, the
story teller, June 28, atthree o'clock.

4. James Barrie and His Books,
June 29, at 11 o'clock.

5. ran MacLaren and Drumtoch-
ty, June 29, at two o'clock.

The other two lectures are "Trop-
ical Africa" and "Second Fiddles,"
and will be given in the evening, as
announced later.

Something to Talk About.

This is for next year's students.
Among the school activities which
may be enumerated as prominent
are those connected with:

1. The Emersonian Society.

2. The Platonian Society.
.">. Tiie Amateurian Society.

t. The Oratorical Association.

5. The Young Men's Christian
Association.

6. The Young Women's Chris-
tian Association.

7. The Men's Glee Club.

8. The Orchestra.

9. The Camera Club.

10. The Agricultural Club.

11. The Football Teams.

12. The Basketball Teams.

13. The Baseball Teams.
1 t. The Tennis Club.
15. The Track Athletics.

Now. it goes without saying that
no strident can be prominent in ton
many of these activities without
losing in his main work. At the
same time, no student can afford to
neglect them all. The question is
how many can be attended to with
profit. Can a student do good and
sufficient work and be prominent in

more than two or three of the fore-
going? Why not think about this
before school begins next September,
and be governed accordingly?

Judging from some of the literature
seen, the Coburn players are high class.
Graniing this to be true, the plays
should draw a large audience. The
people who wish to enjoy an out door
picnic might bring lunches in the after-
noon Saturday and remain for the
evening performance of Macbeth.
Plans are being made to furnish ice
water at convenient points in the ra-
vine and every effott will be made to
make the event a success.

Nothing definite has been said in
regard to the particular spot on the
campus which the authorities will se-
lect for the plays. The Courier after
taking an inventory of the ravine sug-
gests that spot of ground located east
of the ravine and quite a distance
north of the long bridge. The spot in
question wou'd afford a very conven-
ient location for the stage and the ris-
ing hillside to rhe east would accomod-
ate mm/ more than a thousand spec-
tators. Perhaps this is not the only suit-
able locattoi We also suggest to our
readers that the best way to get a vi-
tal interest in these plays is to take a
personal tour of inspection of the
grounds with the above idea in mind.

CALENDAR 1911 - 1912.

Autun n Quarter opens Sept. 18, 1911

Autumn Quarter closes Dec, 8, 1911

Holiday Recess

Dec. 22, 1911 to Jan. 2, 1912

Winter Quart er closes Mar. 8, 1912

Spring Quarter opens Mar. 18, 1912

Spring Quarter closes June 7, 1912

Tenia Graduation, June 6. 1912

First Decennial Anniversary

June 6, 1912

Summer Term opens June 17, 1912

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Board of Managers.

Senior Louise Hainline

Junior George Salisbury

Academy George Mapes

Tenth Grade Jennie Walker

Ninth Grade Lena Culp

Training School.. Myrrhene Newsome

Platonian W. O. Pendarvis

Emersonian Warner Watson

Country School Class

Wallace Shanks

Kappa Phi Gamma. .Martha McLean
Faculty. .Mr. White, Mr. Hursh,

Miss Davis
Ex-Officio Mr. Bayliss

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASST. EDITOR

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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Educative forces are making
themselves felt in other fields than
the class room. Men who are en-
gaged in research and experimental
work are making an effort to disperse
the truths learned 'among the mass
of people whom such truths should
better. Our modern magazines scat-
ter discoveries and inventions broad-
cast among those who read the best
periodicals of the day, but there are
many who are not reached by this
means. This class in question, how-
ever, can be touched by means of the
Daily and County newspapers.

Perhaps some have noted that the
papers of this and other counties are
printing articles written by the ag-
ricultural experts of the State Agri-
cultural College. Such reports and
discussions as these stand a better
chance of being read when in news-
papers than if they were simply
printed in a bulletin. That they
are of value there can be no doubt.
The times are advancing. The edu-
cators are extending the knowledge
and influence beyond the class room
into the fields and factories. This
is the first sign of the times that are
coming when to be "poorly read"
will be the product of negligence
alone and no man can say he had no
"schooling."

The Courier through the Summer
Term for 10 cents. Free to all year-
ly subscribers who pay in advance.

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Wc lose a good librarian
and the Whitewater, Wis.
Normal School gains a good
one, when Miss Jackson takes
up her duties there next
autumn.

Hayes Fuhr who graduated
here in June and at the Ma-
comb Conservatory of Music
this year has been employed
as musical instructor in the
Culver Military Academy at
Culver, Indiana. His work will
include the conducting of the
Men's Glee Club and the Cour-
ier will take this method to in-
form the Academy that it will
have a good Glee Club this
year. The Culver Academy is
the largest in the west and this
fact speaks well for Mr. Fuhr's
ability.

The members of the Faculty
and those of the Alumni Asso-
ciation who are in school in-
vite the entire body of students
to an informal reception to-
morrow evening on third floor.

The half-dozen mulberry
trees planted last Arbor Day
are growing nicely. It will be
just a short space of time be-
fore they will be bearing fruit.
Birds are very fond of mul-
berries and these trees will
serve to call many birds to find
a home in our little forest.

A few of. the fine Linden
trees donated by Mr. Keefer
are doing well and he informs
us that the weak ones will be
replaced.

After a general survey of
the Arbor Day work Ave be-
lieve it was entirely profitable.

Ralph Bishop, our Manual
Training Assistant was called
home Tuesday to attend the
funeral of a relative.

Although William Hawley
Smith was ill and unable tc
give the Commencement Ad-
dress as was printed, the large
audience was agreeably enter-
tained by "The Dawn of a To-
rn or row" as read by Miss
Davis. The story is one of
optimism and brings good
cheer to any audience.

The Courier says "Well
done" to the Amateur Club.
The Arch of Titus looks pret-
ty well in the Study Hall.
Wake up, you Emersonians
and Platoniins!

The Courier regrets to note
the resignations of Blanche E.
Campbell and Anne Durr,
both skillful and popular train-
ing teachers. Success to them
in other fields!

A number of advanced stud-
ents are studying with the ex-
amination for State Certifi-
cates in mind. Success to
each and every one of them.

One student, a graduate of
the school, of three years'
experience, is devoting
three hours a day to the type
writing machine. The Cour-
ier predicts that there wil|
be many others doing the
same in the near future.

A one mill tax for the Uni-
versity is a very great credit
to the 47th General Assembly
and a good thing for higher
education, -but a two mill tax
for the common schools will
be a better thing for education
and a still greater credit to
the 48th. will it, or will it not?
Let us both work and pray
that it will.

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By the courtesy of Capt. Eads,
the Normal School has come into
the possession of a deed, executed in
1823, conveying the Campus to An-
drew Woodruff at the rate of two dol-
lars per acre. Mead Brockway hired a
lawyer by the name of Parez Randall
to sell it for him at that price, if
Parez had been able to see four score
and eight years into the future, he
probably would held Mr. Woodruff up
for another dollar an acre. The paper
is worn and torn, but the Library will
mend and preserve it.

Alfred Sorensen, Francis Campbell,
and Homer Venters, representing the
Young Men's Christian Association,
are encamped this week on the shores
of the beautiful Lake Geneva in at-
tendance at the Annual Y. M. C. A.
Conference held there there this week.

A GOOD NOTION OF NOTH-
ING TO DO

The Western Courier's notion of
nothing to do, under any circum-
stances whatever, is to buy anything
whatever on the installment plan, of
anybody whomsoever, which one does
not imperatively need at the moment
to avoid freezing to death or starving
to death.

What is this we hear about length
-ening the time for the regular course
to two years and a Summer term - or
was it two Summer terms? The Couri-
re has it ears to the ground, and will
report any thing authenitc as soon as
it is known to be so.

The Courier press has made six
thousand impressions en the three
thousand Mailing Cards which are be-
ing used to advertise the three plays
that are coming soon.

Next year four former teachers in
this school will be members of the fac-
ulty in the best known Teachers Col-
lege in the world. They are Dr. Fred-
rick G .Bonser, Lois Coffey, B. C.
Bertha M. Bentley, and Blanche E.
Campbell.

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Louise Randolph, 'oq, was
seen about the building last
week. We surmise she is en-
joying her vacation.

September 18, iqii, the
Western Illinois State Nor-
mal School begins its Tenth
Year. It is said that the
anniversaries next June will
be appropriate to the fir^t
Decennial.

Teachers in attendance from
the same county could profit-
ably support a county club.

COMING
june-26-29- colledge
June-30-JULY-1-

Coburn Players
July--6-Annual Spell-
ing Match
July--7-8-Open Coun-
try Club Meeting

Business enterprise manifests
itself sometimes quite early
in youth and when once ob-
served is a good index to the
man of whom the child is fath
er- The Courier has found a
case of business foresight that
will result in final success to
the person in question.

A'boy in the Training School
bought a pig for $3.00, fed
it awhile and sold it for $8.00.
He then bought two pig> for
rhe same price and also bo't a
pair of shoes with the remain-
der. He is not only enterpris-
ing but generous. He has giv-
en one pig to his grandmother

Courier herewith hands its
best compliments to the Class
of 1911 upon the quality of its

"Sequel".

The four hundredth student
enrolled at one fifteen Tues-

day.

The campus will be improved
shortly with 'an Agricultural Hall.
This building will be located on or
near the Experimental Farm and its
purpose will be to house machinery
and serve as a store room for the
various produces of the farm. It
will be made of fire resisting mate-
rial, either brick or concrete, and
will be so planned as to add mate-
rially to the beauty of the grounds.

Ralph Eyrnan, M , who has be°n
teaching in the John Swaney school,
near McNabb, visited the school
prior to his departure for the sum-
mer school of the University of
Illinois.

Mr. Carl Crabb, '08, will be a
student in Teachers' College, Colum-
bia University, next year. He will
be chasing a degree in Manual Arts,
a line of work for which he is natur
ally well adapted.

Miss Jana Morey, '07, who ht*o
been teaching at Tuscola for the
last two years, goes to Tucson, Ari-
zona, next year, at a monthly sala-
ry of $80.

Attention, Alumni!

The Alumni Association has grown
until its members are about 250 in
number. Some of the graduates
have changed their location and the
officers of the association have lost
track of them.

The school and officers of the as-
sociation are anxious to know where
all graduates are located. Will you
kindly send your address, anu tl
address of any of the earlier gra<!
nates that you know of, for ne'
year to the secretary of the Alumni
Association?

LAVINIA STINSON,

Macomb, 111.

The Summer School finds th<3
Athletic Field rather desolate jus't
now. However, the tennis courts are
used occasionally in the early morn-
ing hours.

The flower gardens made and
maintained by the seventh grade are
worth going to see, even if a climb
over the barb wire fence is neces-
sary. Each plat is m.irked with a
neatly painted sign, br*Tlng the pu-
pil's name and the jymi of the
plants growing there.

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r'erhaps the boys who work
in the Manual Arts will have
suitable uniforms next year.

About fifty of last week's Couriers
are held subejct to call from subscrib-
ers whose addresses we know to have
changed for the vacation.

Keith Kerman, a former
student here, was enjoying a
game of tennis on our courts a
few nights ago.

The Courier begs to inquire who
will deliver the address to the July
contingent of the Class of 1911

Just as we thought we had lost
him, back comes Ross Nichol, takes
off his coat, and goes to work in the
Manual Arts shops for all the world as
though he had never thought of such a
thing as "graduating".

It is expected that Glenn
Head will be chosen chorister
at the O. C. Club this evening.
Then look out for music from
the "Little Organ".

The boys who are at lake Geneva
report a very successful conference and
also state they are enjoying the camp
life to the fullest extent.

Dr. Col'edge will arrive Monday and
his first talk will be given at 9:40 A.M.

Any students who have some nice
black walnut lumber lying around the
farm at home could use it to no better
abvantage than to work it into a Morris
chair, a Library table or something jf
the same nature.

The Courier free for the remainder
of the year if you hand George Salisbury
fifty cents for your subscription for next
year.

Miss Colby is attending Summer
School at the University of Chicago.
During her absence Martha McLean
has charge of the Domestic Science
bepartment.

The Normal School Publications.

A. First. — The student publica-
tion known as the We.-Aorn Courier,
a copy of which in its latest form
the reader is perusing. This num-
ber, however, must not be taken as
a sample. The editor has kindly
given the most of his space this week
to the graduation. The business of
the Western Courier is to keep a
record of the life of the school and
to give the Manual Training stu-
dents who elect printing, something
practical to do. The "job" office of
the Western Courier, is a useful ad-
junct enabling the school to have the
benefit of quite a good deal of mis-
cellaneous printing which otherwise
could not be afforded.

Second. — The Sequel is a year
book published by the senior class
and is a review pictorially and his-
torically of the life of the school for
■i year. It is sold only by subscrip-
tion and it is difficult to obtain a
copy after publication. The Sequel
is often a somewhat expensive lux-
ury costing the students $700 or
$800 to publish, but it would be
hard to convince a senior class that
it. was not part of its duty to excel
al! previous classes in the quality of
its work. The school would hardly
be quite the same without the Se-
quel.

B. — The Military Tract Normal
School Quarterly published four
times a year in the name of the
tu.stees and is furnished free to any
teacher in the schools of Illinois who
wishes to receive it. The numbers
so far issued are:

1. A year's work in industrial
and social problems in grades one
and two.

2. A year's work in industrial
and social problems in grades three
and four.

3. A year's work in industrial
and social problems in grades five
and six.

4. A year's work in industrial
and social problems in grades seven
and eight.

5. A course of study for the ele-
mentary school.

6. A course of study in the nor-
mal and academic divisions of the
school.

7. The Principal's report for
1909-1910.

8. Circular Number Two, Soil
Experiment Field, dealing with the
school work in agriculture.

9. The announcement of the
summer term for 1911 containing
the thesis of Mary Allison Bennett,
class of 1908, on Morning Exercises
in the Country School.

10. English in the Grades, a re-
sume of discussions of this topic in
the Faculty Club within ';•
year 1910-1911.

The school also publishes Mili-
tary Tract papers, an annual, <.:>.'. r.
paper being made up chiefly of the
address delivered on Illinois Day,
December 3rd. So far thre'.- of
these annuals have been published
and copies are obtainable on ^pli-
cation.

The principal was delighted last
Monday morning to receive a series
of postal cards, showing various
buildings of the University, from
Ralph Swearingen, Eli Smith, Jr.,
Charles Riley, J. T. Johnson, Albert
Bell, Earl Eyman, Lee Hoyt, Lewis
Gill, Bert Crandall, Clarence Clute,
Royal Ritchey, Walter Pollock, and
Dwight Croxton. The foregoing aro
among the members of the Agricul-
tural Club, who, with Mr. Johnson
as chaperone, visited the University
the last of last week. The series is
an interesting one, and if you call
when he is not too busy, the princi-
pal will be delighted to let you se-j
the cards.

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CONGRESS

A VISIT TO THE STATE

EXPERIMENT FARMS

THE AGRICULTURE CLUB

VISITS THE STATE

UNIVERSITY

BY OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT

During the last winter quarter Mr.
Johnson arranged that the students of
his agriculture class and their invited
friends should visit the State Experi-
ment Fields at Urbana during the
summer session, and on Thursday,
June 15th, a party of fourteen
availed themselves of the opportunity.
Upon arriving at Urbana about twelve
o'clock Thursday night, Mr. Johnson
proceeded to set a few of the mem-
bers' aright on north and south direct-
ions, after which the following answer-
ed to roll call : Albert Bell, Dwight
Croxton, Earl Eyman, Clarence Clute,
Bert Crandall, Lewis Gill, Lee Hoyt,
Walter Pollock, Royal Ritchey, Eli
Smith, Jr., Charles Riley, Ralph
Swearingen, with Mr. Johnson as pilot
and counsellor.

The early part of Friday forenoon
was spent in viewing the experiment
farms, with Prof. Pettit explaining the
various experiments the state has
made in farming. The experiment
plots of ground just south of the agri-
cultural building were first inspected-
Here were seen the state experiments
with all the different kinds of grain
which were tested in various ways such
as one, two, three, and four year ro-
tations, the application of different fer-
tilizers, and finally the plan of continu-
ing, as some present day farmers do,
to grow corn on one plot for thirty-three
consecutive years. . The last plan is
simply a test to ascertain how long the
ground will produce corn without ferti-
lizers. Most of the boys agreed that
the test was nearly completed.

From these experiment plots the
class was shown the fields farther
south where the results of the experi-

ments are put into operation on a larg-
er scale. By the time the boys had
walked over about four hundred acres,
giving promise of abundant crops such
as have been harvested since the Ex-
I periment Field was laid out, even the
most skeptical of them were thorough -
1/ convinced that scientific agriculture
could be successfully carried out on a
large scale.

Probably the most interesting field
on the south farm was a forty acre
tract which contained, as Mr. Pettit
declared, a perfect stand of alfalfa.
He explained that alfalfa could be suc-
cessfully grown on well drained land
if the ground was first well limed and
properly inoculated with sweet clover
bacteria. It is thought that when this
fact becomes more thoroughly under-
stood by the farmer, alfalfa will become
the leading forage crop.

The boys were somewhat surprised
to learn that most of the surrounding
farmers of Urbana and Champaign do
not avail themselves of the scientific
methods endorsed by the final results
of the State Fields, but Mr Pettit said
neighboring farmers were, as a rule,
the slowest to comprehend the mean-
ing of the state's work in agricultural
lines; and that the farmers residing
farthest away were the first to inspect
and adopt into practical use the me-
thods of the University.

Most of the fields were visited by
ten o'clock then Prof. Hall led the
Agriculture Club through the animal
husbandry department which comprised
fine specimens of horses, beef and dairy
cattle, sheep and swine. Mr. Hall ex-
plained various branches of the work in
live stock, explaining in detail the best
methods obtained from different feed-
ings and environment. The dairy de-
partment was probably the most inter-
esting of all the live stock enterprises.
Here the utmost care prevails to pro-
mote cleanliness and sanitary condi-
tions which is the state's best adver-
tisement, both from a healthful and

economic standpoint.

Being still eager to see more
of the sights but not wanting to walk as
far as they had in the forenoon trip, the
class spent the afternoon in wandering
through the various buildings on the
large beautiful campus. The College of
Agriculture was first visited where the
boys became quite interested in the
dairy division in which they saw a six
hundred-pound churning of butter which
looked"asgood as mother used to
make". The bacteriological depart-
ment was also very interesting. Prof.
Bristoe explained the work at length,
showing the party various specimens of
animals affected with tuberculosis.

The Chemistry, Physics, Natural
History, and Engineering buildings
came next in order, thus affording
the class some knowledge of the
magnitude of the work of the Univers-
ity. The athletic grounds and Gymnas-
ium were visited last, the latter con-
taining a large swimming pool of
which a few of the boys availed them-
selves. They were probably encourag-
ed by Mr. Johnson's emphasizing to
one member of the class who expects
to be a freshman at the University
next September, the necessity of be-
ing able to swim should he be paid a
visit by the sophomores.

Part of the class were compelled
on account of business to return home
Saturday forenoon, while the others
spent the remainder of the day acquain-
ting themselves with the library and
the Y.M.C.A. building. Ml returned
home Saturday evening firm in the
conviction that the trip had proved both
enjoyable and profitable, and fully re-
solved that the Agriculture Club should
repeat next year this interesting exper-
ience, which, with the kindly effort and
aid of Mr. Johnson, was so suc-
cessfully carried out this year.

— C. C.

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Board of Managers.

Senior Louise Hainlin«

Junior George Salisbury

Academy George Mapes

Tenth Grade Jennie Walker

Ninth Grade Lena Culp

Training School . .Myrrhene Newsome

Platonian W. O. Pendarvis

Emersonian Warner Watson

Country School Class

Wallace Shanks

Kappa Phi Gamma. .Martha McLean
Faculty. .Mr. White, Mr. Hursh,

Miss Davi3
Ex-Officio Mr. Bayliss

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASST. EDITOR

Business Manager C. E. White

As«t. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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AN EXAMINATION PAPER

"The final test of the school
is the results, The immediate
aim in scholarship and skill is
fully covered by the school
course. The final aim is capa-
ble and useful men and wom-
en." The foregoing are from
Circular 51, issued by the De-
partment of Public Instruction
for Illinois and here are a few
of the suggestive questions on
results which any teacher can
ask and answer for himself at
different periods through the
terms:

Do the older pupils show
genuine interest in school
work ?

Do they do the work well ?

Are they eager to learn?

Are they respectful and

csnsiderate of others.or are

they rude and disposed to

annoy?

Are they disposed to be
helpful?

Are they eager for self-
improvement?

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Are they truthful, straight

forward, or are they inclined

to disseminate ?

Do they seem to be

headed for an honest and

useful career?

The county superintend
ent's visits are not frequent
enough nor long enough to
enable him to answer these
questions for you any better
than you can answer them
for yourselves. Besides, he
might not always be as
frank and clear with you as
you would very likely be
with yourself.

The Courier suggests to some of the
younger students who are engaged
with subjects in the State Course of
Study that this school offers a full year
of review work based on that docu-
ment. It might not be a bad plan to call
upon Miss. Grote some convient time
and let her explain the plan. In brief,
the Courier can say that term fees are
waived for students taking that course
who stay a full year, and in addition
pledge themselves to teach in the coun-
try school. A recommendation from
the county superintendent or a teach-
er's certificate is necessary to secure
the exemption from term fees. This
course has been very popular and help-
ful Twenty-four students received cer-
tificates for its completion at the last
graduation. If one does not wish the
course for herself at this time, it might
be well to know about it so as to be able
to describe it to a friend who does
need it.

The Christian Associations
are now preparing a handbook
which will contain information
useful to students new and old.
The book will be read)' for dis-
tribution before the beginning
of school September iS.

Miss Bernice Wagner,' 10,
who taught this year at Hins-
dale is here to take the State
Examination.

Report comes r A the marriage of
Mr. Arthur Odenweller and Miss Ellen
Ahl a short time ago. Both :
graduated in the 1907 class and both
have made good in teaching. The
gentleman was elected to the of r
County Superintendent of Henry
County which speans well for his ability
and popularity, The Courier wishes the
couple the ful' sum of haopiness as it
collects itself in the years a^ they
pass by.

The reception given last
Friday night by the Faculty
proved to be a very enjoyable
affair to the students of the
Summer Term. The general
conversation was interspersed
by a reading by Miss Jackson,
a story by Miss I lamilton, and
two songs by Miss Shamel.
With the assistance of the fac-
ulty ladies, Miss Martha Mc-
Lean and Miss Lavinia Stin-
son served \\<A\\. refreshments.

Miss Corbin discussed in the
Chapel Friday, the Canter-
bury Tales and the Prologue,
giving the student body a his-
torical and literary setting for
to-morrow evening's perform-
ance.

Do not forget to mark a
copy of the Courier and send
it to your County Superinten-
dent for the Open Country
Club day. If you have already
done so, get some one from
your county who has neglect -
ed to do it. We want every
county superintendent to have
as many invitations as he has
students at summer school. If
it is too late to get hold of a
copy of the Courier , write
him a letter.

We will expect a number of
"regulars" back for the plays
tomorrow and next day.

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A LETTER FROM "PEN"

The following is a letter from Wilbur
O. Pendarvis of the Class of ' 1 1 and
was written on his way to the Philippine
Islands where he enters the education-
al service:

Yokohoma, Japan, June 2, 1911.

Mr. Ralph Bishop,

Macomb, 111.
Dear Ole Rastus: —

This is us and we
still am enjoying life to the fullest ex-
tent. I have had a big day of it to-
day. We came into Tokyo gulf here
last night and as soon as the Japs
came out to inspect us this morning
we ran into the harbor here and took
a tug for the shore. I at once took a
train up to Tokyo where I spent the
day.

Japan is indeed a wonderful country
and her busy little people are interest-
ing to the extreme When we reached
Tokyo, we hired jinrikasha men to haul
us around in their funny little man
buggies all day for one yen fifty sen,
or a dollar and a half in Japanese mon-
ey, equivalent to 75cents in ours. We
visited two of their famous parks, one
or two of their temples, various tea
houses, curio shops, silk stores and
restaurants. We viewed the imperial
palace and the public buildings
from the exterior and went through
the imperial museum. Then we return-
ed to Yokohama and got out to the
ship here in the harbor in time for
supper and now I am writing cards,
etc., until bed time. Part of our crowd
are still ashore and some of them are
just leaving to go back now, but it is
raining a little and I have had all the
adventure I need for to-day, so I am
going to stay in.

Our trip across the Pacific has been
a very pleasant one, in fact it has been
a prolonged holiday and picnic. There
were about 1 50 of us first class pass-
engers starting out from Frisco. About
50 of the bunch got jff at Honolulu
but we had a fine bunch left. There
are only four teachers on. Two of them
are old teachers, or rather men who
have been in the work there before
and are returning after a trip back to
the states, and one is a blamed fool

like myself who couldn't go when the
bunch went, who sailed on May 3rd.
He is a young chap from South Car-
olina and is going out for the first
time. The weather on the ocean has
for the most part been fine. The air
has been warm aud balmy and the
ocean calm.

We played shuffle board on deck in
our shirt sleeves, had base ball games,
athletic contests and various other
stunts. Then we had various concerts,
programs, receptions, etc. of evenings.
In addition tc this card games and
story telling circles generally kept a
goodly number busy until after mid-
night each evening. The re will only be
35 or 40 of us left for the rest of the
trip, but we are all wel' acquainted and
will have a good time, we sail at 10 in
the morning and make two more stops
in Japan, Kobe and Nagasaki. We will
reach Manila about the 10th or 11th
and school begins the thirteenth I am
told. You may mail my Sequel to Man-
ila, care of the Dept. of Education and
they will promptly forward it to me
wherever I am sent. This will enable
me to get it a month or so sooner than
I would if I waited to find my exact ad-
dress. With best wishes to you, the
print shop, summer school and all
things in general, I am

Sincerely yours,

"PEN"

From Carbondale:- "I was
glad to hear that yon were
successful, getting the appro-
priations for a Woman's Build-
ing. We are gratified to know
that we can erect a similar
building. We are also under-
taking to start our Agricultur-
al work on a broader basis."
— Pres. D.B. Parkinson.

Mr. Bayliss spoke in Eben-
ezer Church in Scotland
Township Sunday morning.
TheCourier was not represent-
ed but would be surprised to
know that he managed to talk
for half an hour without refer-
ring to standardized schools.
Here's a guess that he didn't.

We learn from a round a-
bout source that Alfred Soren-
sendid some good work in
athletics at the Lake Geneva
Conference last week. He
won a rhird in the one hund-
red yard dash and also a third
in the four hundred forty yard
clash, which is very good when
one considers that six or seven
hundred of the best men from
the Mississippi Valley colleges
and Universities are congre-
gated there. It has also been
learned that Francis Campbell
was hit in the eye with a base-
ball while watching the Illinois
Wisconsin ball game.

A "NAWFUL" WARNING
He used tobacco constantly
Since he was seventeen,
Until his whole anatomy
Was soaked with nicotine.
He never stopped his smoking
Except to take a chew;
And when he wasn't chewing
The air with smoke was blue.
He bought a big plantation
(So well he loved the weed; )
He planted every acre
With fine Havana seed.
One day when very weary,
He laid him down to sleep
Amid the green tobacco,
Where the caterpillars creep.
They swarmed about and over

him
With ceremony scant.
And ate him-body, bones and

all
For a tobacco plant.

— T. J. B.— College Life.

Eastern Illinois Normal at
Charleston has about as many
over 500 students as we have
over 400. Charleston Normal
is just four years older than we
are, and this difference must
not be so great another year.
What say we, all of us?

'I JiK WESTERN C<

Dr. Colledge's lectures arc
so full of rich good stories thai
the Courierwould be very glad
to quote some for the benefit
of the readers. From the fact
that the editor is not an expert
in Seoich the repetition will by
no means be exact.

However one that bears in it
a message for us Americans
just now, as the political cor-
ruption is being investigated
is as follows:

A Scotch woman was milking
in fly time when these pests
became so bothersome that
they caused the cow to kick
the pail over and race down
the road. As the cow turned a
nearby corner with the woman
following close behind, a man
was seen in the road ahead.
The woman cried"Hey man,
stop my cow."

To which the man replied
with considerable dignity,
"I'm no man, I'm a magis-
trate.

The greatest accomplish-
ment a man ever attains is the
ability to step from his own
shoes into the other fellow's
and see the issue from that
point of view.

President Parkinson writes:
"I see by the summer itinerary
of the Coburn Players that
they are to visit your institu-
tion during the summer. They
were with us on the 15th, and
our people enjoyed them very
much. We think we shall have
them return next year."

The enrollment at Carbon-
dale is just a little larger than
ours.

Dr.CoIledge who is giving
the lectures this week was
formerly employed as head of
the Department of English in

the Armour Institute at Chic-
ago,but is now lecturing under
the direction of a Lyceum
Beureau. He is a man of broad
experience and thoro training,
having traveled and studied
on both sides of the Atlantic.

This much for our Sequel:
Allow me to congratulate your
young people on getting out
such an attractive and artistic
publication. It surely gives
evidence of much care and
taste. For several reasons our
young people have not under-
taken the task of issuing an
annual, but I think we must
persuade them to do some-
thing of the kind in the near
future.

-President Parkinson,

Carbondale.

Have you seen the Country
School Exhibit? More than
that, have you contributed any
thing towards its enlargement?
Or are you going to let Hen-
dersonCo. carry off the sweep-
stakes without sharp competi-
tion ? See the manager, Miss
Mamie Thompson, at the Em-
ersonian Hall, at the first op-
portunity, and see what you
can do to help out. The elev-
enth hour people in this matter
will also receive every one
his penny.

Mr. Johnson has another
fine photograph of the build-
ing taken from the southeast.
It is for evening effect he tells
us.

Mr.Hursh gave a short talk
on the. tragedy "Macbeth" last
week that will help those who
heard it to fully comprehend
this the greatest of Shake-
speare's tragedies.

Mr. Johnson took photo-
graphs of Ross N ichol' 8 library
table and Morris (hair, of
Fester Smith's oak Morris
chair, and also George Salis-
bury's walnut (hair of the
same style. The articles
themselves may be seen in the
vicinity of the M.T. room.

Miss Coburn. the advance a-
gent for the Coburn Players
was here last Friday and it was
decided to hold the plays in
the ravine just north of Mr.
Hursh's house.

Mr. and Mrs. Coburn play
Macbeth and Fady Macbeth
ind the leading parts in the
other plays. Something of a
coincidence, perhaps a ro-
mance.

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THE COBURN PLAYERS

A BRIEF REVIEW OF
THEIR WORK

The profit and enjoyment ob-
tained from the series of plays by
the Coburn Players cannot easily
be over-esti nra ted and could not
well have been better, except by a
more general attendance on the
part of the students. On the
whole, the plays were quite beyond
what was expected and I, for one,
feel sure that if such an opportunity
come again, more will make full
use of it.

We always have talked of the out-
door-theatre possibilities of the Ra-
vine, but we did not know half the
charm it gives to a play to hear and
see it under the great oaks. All now
believe that a permanent amphi-
theater would be a most delightful
addition to the beauty and utility of
our spacious campus.

The plays were all very pleasing,
especially Much Ado, and Macbeth.
The comedy based on Chaucer's
Prolog to the Canterbury Tales is
something new, and I can easily see
that it might not be quite pleasing
to the student of literature, who
has enjoyed the rich imagery of the
grand old "Poet of the Dawn," to
see Chaucer mixed up with the buf-
foonery and broad mirth as seen in
the play. Then, ag-ain, one who has
not studied, to some extent Chaucer
and his time, cannot see that the pa-
geant is a transcript of English life
and manners of that time.

No one could And any fault with
the playing, and probably all would
enjoy it more on a second hearing.

Much Ai'o i one of the most
cl arming comtv.,- 's ever written,
and it fits outdoor play admirably.
Many in the audience had considera-
ble knowledge of the play, one club
in the city having made a study of
it a few years 'ago. There is so
much of sprightliness, so many
sharp turns, so many pleasing sur-
prises, just enough of the tragic to
give fine reactive effect to the hu-
mor, that one just must enjoy it.

The playing was excellent, no
weak places, and the leading pans
were done with such artistic finish

that everybody was charmed with it.
I do not know how much the out-
door scenes, etc., lent to it, but I
am sure I never saw the play given
so well anywhere.

.Macbeth was attended by much
the largest audience of any and was
received with enthusiasm by all. T'us
great Shakespearian tragedy, al-
though probably the simplest in plot
of any of his tragedies, is, by its di-
rectness, intensity and exalted pas-
sion, held to be one of the greatest
pieces of tragic literature ever writ-
ten; and the Coburn Players gave it
so well that even the critical were
well pleased. While it does not fit
outdoor playing so well as Much
Ado About Nothing, the rendition
was so good that we easily took the
brush screens for the castle: and the
suggestive clash of arms in the dark-
ness about the stage, coincident with
the final duel made an impression
not soon to be forgotten.

We think nothing more fitting and
: rofitable could have been made a
part of our summer school, and we
already are thinking of what we may
have next year. Everybody who at-
tended the plays feel grateful to
Mr. Payliss for having brought the
Coburn Players here, and to Miss
Pavis for her efficient management of
the same. Mr. Coburn says she is the
best business manager he has met
with this season.

When we walk down through the
quiet ravine now we are wont to ex-
claim with Banquo:
"Were such things here as we

do speak about,
Or have we eaten on the insane root?"
H.

It was conceded that "Patsy"
played his part to perfection.

Next year, by swinging the stage
around to the east, and building an
amphitheater with really and truly
comfortable seats, the summer plays
will be more attractive than ever.
Plow would Romeo and Juliet, The
Merchant of Venice, and The Tam-
ine of the Shrew suit YOU?

Have you registered for the
telling match yet?

THE COLLEDGE LECTURES

A SUMMARY OF THE
SERIES OF LECTURES

The lectures on Scotch literature
given last week by Dr. Colledge tor
the summer students of the Normal
were a source of pleasure and in-
spiration hardly to be overestimated.
Their helpfulness was not limited to
the few hours in which we listened
to the scholarly criticism, and tie
clear-cut vigorous English of the
speaker, but they have suggested ma-
terial for months of reading. We
shall be taking down our Burns Iron
the shelves and enjoying once more
Tarn O'Shanter and The Cotter's Sat-
urday Night; we shall perhaps renew
our acquaintance with Stevenson's
delightful Travels with a Donkey, his
Essay on Burns, or Kidnapped, or
have the pleasure of reading for the
first time A Window in Thrums, or
reside the Bonnie Briar Bush. Cer-
tainly no one could hear these lec-
tures without wishing to know more
o' these great writers whom Dr. Col-
ledge described with all the enthusi-
asm of a true Scotchman.

in the opening lecture Dr. Colledge
sketched briefly in early Scotch liter-
ature: its rise in the ballad of feud
and warfare; its real beginning with
Allen Ramsay in the early eighteenth
century: the growth of the Jacobite
poetry inspired by loyalty to "Bonnie
Prince Charlie;" the musical verse of
James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd,"
and the culmination of this vernacu-
lar poetry in the lyrics of Burns.

In dealing with Burns, the poet of
Democracy, in the second lecture, Dr.
Colledge brought out certain points
whreh have often been neglected
; n estimates of the plowman poet. He
contradicted the popular error that
Burns was an uneducated man, "warb-
ling his native wood notes wild," and
.-'lowed how Burns' father carefully
instructed his son in the literature
and history at his command, while
later the poet gained for himself a
fair knowledge of Latin and French
and a wide and thorough acquain-
tance with English literature. That

(Continued on page 10)

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Board of Managers.

Senior Louise Hainline

Junior George Salisbury

Academy George Mapes

Tenth Grade Jennie Walker

Ninth Grade Lena Culp

Training School. .Myrrhene Newsome

Platonian W. O. Pendarvis

Emersonian Warner Watson

Country School Class

Wallace Shanks

Kappa Phi Gamma. .Martha McLean
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh,

Miss Davis
Ex-Officio Mr. Bayliss

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The Needs of the School.

We need a greenhouse, to be even
with the other schools. That, how-
ever, we can provide for ourselves,
If necessary.

We need a men's gymnasium. The
present gymnasium is becoming in-
adequate for the needs of both boys
and girls. Much of the use of the
gymnasium has to be after school
hours, and it is not always easy to
arrange the time so that each can
have an appropriate share.

We need modern apparatus on our
outdoor play ground for the young
children. This need can largely be
supplied by ourselves from the Man-
ueal Training department.

We need, and expect to have, be-
fore the opening of school, a store-
house for the products of the experi-
ment field. That is already provid-
ed for.

We need, very much, an affiliated
country school. Authority was giv-
en the principal nearly a year ago to
negotiate with any board of direc-
tors in charge of a country district
near enough to us so that we could
be mutually helpful, looking toward
an affiliated relation. As yet, noth-
ing has been done. What country
district able to give reasonable as-
surance that it will have enough
children for the coming three or four
to make a school is willing to
fit up Its building so that it will be
accepted as a standard school build-
ing by the Superintendent of Pub-

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lie Instruction, and accept th<- ser-
vices of a member of the Normal
Training faculty, at a nominal price?
We need, and are gradually ac-
quiring, a certain increase of school
spirit. A few years ago, a boy in
the Training School offered to do
his work in the school garden if he
could have all the profits from the
sale of his products. Now, seventh
and eighth grade boys work out of
school hours and on Saturdays in
their gardens, and are willing to ac-
cept a fair commission on their
sales, and allow the proceeds to go
into the common purse for the pur-
pose of procuring working material
or some good thing for the benefit
of the whole school. What we want
Is an increase of this spirit, and also
an increase of pride and interest in
the school as a society. It is coming.

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH

When will the citizens and "kids" of
this glorious United States quit burning
powder on the Nation's Birthday? This
is a question that serious minded and
influential citizens may well think on.
It would be safe to say that not one in
one hundred of the ardent dispensers
of noise thinks of the significance of
the day.

If this is true, then, the Celebration
of the Nation's birth has degenerated
into a mere formality. The first cel-
ebrations were natural outbursts cf
National pride and patriotism. Men
held the occasion in deep reverence.
Now like Hallowe'en, the fourth of
July has grown to be a day when all
sorts of rackets and peace disturbances
are legally licensed.

Young Americans feel no more
patriotism when firing a cracker than
an ape does when wrapped in the"Star
Spangled Banner". If the practise were
harmless, it could beendured. It is not
so. H is not only dangerous in a
physical measure but a slur on the
sacredness of National pride.

The work of the Courier
press and pressman received a
very nice compliment from the
Coburn Players who said the
Post Card printed to advertise
the plays was the neatest one
that had been made; for them.

NOTICE

All articles made or started in

the

Manual Training room by students

will

be held one year and if not called

for

in that time will be taken by

the

school.

THE OPEN COUNTRY CLUB

SONG
The country fresh and free.
Now calls and beckons thee

To pastures fair,
Where blows the gentle breeze.
O'er woods and grassy leas,
While through the rustling trees.

Echoes the prayer

Our manhood fair and strong,
Our maidens' simple song,

Now calleth thee.
There's work for us to do,
For earnest men and true,
The country calls to you,

List to its plea.

Go thou unto thy task,

For strength and patience ask

From God above.
Thou shalt contented be,
And man shall honor thee.
Thine opened eye shall see

A richer love.

The Board of Trustees and the
Principal are on a trip which will take
them to Decatur, Charleston, and
Champaign to inspect the Women's
buildings of Miliiken Univesity, the
Eastern 111. State Normal School, and
The University of Illinois. It is possi-
ble that they may also extend the trip
to Evanston to see Chapin Hall, the
new Woman's building of Northwest-
ern University, and to see the fine
dormitory of Rockford Woman's
College.

Secretary Lavinia Stinson.
'09, wishes the address of ev-
ery graduate of the school.
Each graduate who reads
this item should report to her
at once, if it has not already
been done.

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(Continued from page 17)
Burns was essentially the poet of the
heart, the song writer who expressed
most sympathetically the life and
feelings of the common people, Dr.
C'olledge gave as the main reason
why Burns is so dear not only to
every Scotchman, but to English
renders everywhere. Burns' humor,
his keen satire of cant and hypocrisy,
his love for animals, his appreciation
of nature, his tender love songs, and
his beautiful pictures of home life,
wore emphasized as some of the prin-
cipal characteristics of his works.
One of the most enjoyable parts of
this lecture was Dr. Colledge's read-
ing of such poems as Highland Mary,
A Man's a Man for a'That, and parts
of Tarn o' Shanter and the Cotter's
Saturday Xight.

In Stevenson the lecturer had per-
haps a less familiar subject, but one
which he treated in a most scholarly
and comprehensive manner, showing
keen insight into the man and his
works. Dr. Colledge analyzed some
of the most striking characterisiics
of Stevenson, his courage, his fine
sense of humor which so often con-
cealed the tendency toward pessim-
ism naturally caused by continual i'l-
health, his keen satire, and his com-
mand of striking and varied plots.
That Stevenson was sometimes arti-
fiicial and often insincere, Dr. Col-
ledge thought was due to his admira-
tion for form and ariistic expression,
partly due to the strong French influ-
ence of his earlier years. As a w r riter
of travels, the speaker considered
Stevenson's Travels With a Donkey
and an Inland Voyage unsurpassed En
their realistic pictures of different
countries and in the beauty and grace
of their style. He also praised most
highly the essays, and commended
particularly the essay on Burns as
one of the best critical judgments of
this much abused poet. In fiction, al-
though Stevenson's characters are
sometimes unreal, yet his command
of varied incident and of plots full of
romance and adventure give a last-
ing interest to such works as Kid-
napped and Treasure Island.

On Thursday morning Dr. Colledge
concluded the series by combining
the two lectures on Barrie and Dr.
Watson (Ian Maclaren). He describ-
ed in a most interesting manner Ba r -
rie's early struggles to obtain a foot-
ing in journalism, and his final dis-
covery that his vein lay in sketches
of the quaint Scotch characters of his
boyhood days, which he immortalbed
in A Window in Thrums and Senti-
mental Tommy. After discussing

1 Wat! in s like subjecls but
differ^m method of treatment in such
books as The Bonnie Briar Bush and
Auld Lang Syne, Dr. Colledge gave a
most delightful reading of Through
the Flood, the story of Dr. Maclure's
brave ride to save the life of one of
his patients.

One of the most popular of Dr.
Colledge's series was the extra lec-
ture, "Second Fiddles," given Tues-
day evening. As his central thought,
the speaker brought out the idea
that energy and perseveance rightly
applied would accomplish almost any
worthy end, and that few who had
pluck and determination and availed
themeslves of the opportunities of-
fered need to play "second fiddle.
This lecture v/as Illustrated with ar
abundance of apt and amusing stories
which added greatly to its interest.
Dr. Colledge's fund of good stories
certainly proves his point that
the Scotchman has a keen sense of
humor.

At the close of the Thursday lec-
ture, the audience expressed its ap-
preciation of the series by a rising
vote of thanks; and on every hand
this week have been heard the com-
ments of the students on the help-
fulness and interest of these talks.
Their influence ought to be far-
reaching, both in the Normal and in
the schools of the state, and we pre-
dict as the first result that the re-
serve shelf of Scotch literature,
which has been so well arranged in
the library, will be a most popular
place during the remainder of thi
summer.

"The Little Minister" and "The
Bonnie Briar Bush" are very popu-
lar books all at once. So are some
ot Stevenson's. Last week was a
great week, sure enough. Colledge
and the Coburn Players together
make a rare combination.

Have you looked over the Coun-
try School exhibit?

Don't fail to hear Superintendent
Hoffman this afternoon, whether
you are a country school teacher or
not.

The O, C. Club.

The impromptu program of the
Open Country Club, last Thursday
evening, called out about seventy-
five people. The chairman, Dean
Grote, drafted McGilvrey, Ginnings,
Dickerson, and Bayliss as speakers.
Of the four, Mr. Dickerson succeed-
ed in making the best point. His

sioiy was of the old country school

' ii i'^ attended tor seveial years,

which, in those days, used to have
thirty-five or forty pupils, and teach
algebra, geometry, and some of the
"ologies" and "osophiestV The
teachers were stirring young men
who were there for the money to
help them in their pursuit of medi-
cal and legal diplomas. They were
good fellows, but not teachers. The
result of their work Mr. Dickerson
has discovered to be to turn every-
one of the older scholars of his kind
into other vocations. While a few
of them are teachers — in colleges
and Normal schools — most of them
are lawyers, doctors, or in other
professions. One or two only remain
on the farm. Mr. Dickerson's
point is that what the country
schools need is a class of teachers
j'ist as efficient 'and just as compe-
tent as those in any school, who
will teach in such a way that the
young people of today will see the
meaning and possibilities of agri-
culture, and stay on the land, build-
ing up the old time country commu-
nities. As quite frequently hap-
pens, Mr. Dickerson is from three-
fourths to four-fifths right.

Miss Hamilton also told an inimi-
table little story. The reporter for-
gets the name of the girl it was
about, but it was a good story be-
cause Miss Hamilton told it.

Readers of the COURIER will be
interested to know that next week we
shall publish a letter from Jose Teo-
dora. Class of 1908. Last Saturday,
Mr.Teodora began the study of law in
the University of the Philippines. Now
gentle reader, pause and think. Class-
es begin in this University at 5:30 or
6:30 in the evening, so that Mr. Teo-
dora continues his regular work in the
Bureau of Education.

Elza Moore who graduated
from here several years ago,
and from the University of
Illinois, has been teaching in
the high school at Tucson,
Arizona, during the last year.
He was visiting friends at the
school last week. The Cour-
ier also learns he will need on-
ly six months work to obtain
a masters degree.
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THE SPELLING MATCH
Owing to the abundance of
good things last week and the
interruption caused by the
national holiday, the spelling
match is postponed one week.
The Courier hears that the
prizes for the spelling match
will be worth taking. The
Match was to have been this
evening, but the postpone-
ment will doubtless make the
contest the keener.

The Sorority girls took advantage of
the gala days last week and had a
general reunion. Saturday morning
was spent breakfasting in the ravine
and from the sounds of merri-
ment that proceeded from the old
camping place one would judge the
reunion was a happy one.

Quite a number of "Elev-
ens" were at chapel last Fri-
day.

If you like the Western Nor-
mal school, tell your friends
about it.

Roy Sallee will teach at
Reynolds, 111. next year. His
work will be with the seventh
and eighth grades and the two
years of the high school.

.Miss Edith Moody, 'u, has
secured a good position as
teacher in the Moline Public
Schools.

George Mapes '11, Academy,
makes as good a hand at staging and
seating as any man of his inches and
twice his avoirdupois.

Beware of Debt

Don't mortgage your next year's
salary.

DONT LET THE HEAT
CAUSE YOU TO FORGET TO
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IER.

Before Taking.
3 P.M. June 30: The Cour-
ier speculates whether The
Coburn Players will "come
back" next year.

After Takinc.
Monday, July 3- A.M. The
Courier is reliably informed
that they will.

Miss Bessie Cooper, training teach-
er elect for second and third grades,
was here for a day or two last week,
making preparations for the work be-
ginning Sept. 18.

The swinging bulletin board
is now fully mounted with the
plates of the "Elgin Marbles".

The Courier is the first to announce
the program for next Celebration Day,
July 4th, 19 12. A good speaker, the best
that can be obtained will deliver an
address sometime during the da/ and
the best display of fireworks that this
county has ever seen will be given in
the evening. This is done to afford
amusement for the students who can't
live without it on a National Holiday.

Mr. Carroll Cooper, who was a stu-
dent here several years ago visited
Macomb friends the past few days.
He is now employed by an Electric
Co. in St. Louis but will soon take up
work on the Keokuk dam,

Mr, Johnson secured four very good
photographs of the stage and audience
of the Matinee "Much Ado About
Nothing". They can be ordered at the
Biological Laboratory.

Lester Smith was not satis-
fied with making one fine oak
Morris so he now has another
one well under way.

Edythe Motter.'i i.will teach
the sixth grade at Tuscoia
next year at the rate of $60
per month.

Among the stalwart yeomen who
helped plant the temporary forest for
the Coburns was Principal Ben Run-
kle of Kewanee. He says he learn-
ed to dig temporary post holes from
former Coach Barnett, down in Arkan-
sas.

MissChloe Danner, who was
a student here a few yeara ago
was visiting the old land marks
around the building last week.
She has been teaching in
Texas the last two years and
reports her work very agree-
able there.

The drinking fountains and
ice water are just about the
best yet.

Sup't C. E. Joiner of Mon-
mouth was a visitor last Fri-
day.

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IE ACT of cor

THE MILITARY TRACT OPEN
COUNTRY CLUB

Considerable interest has been
manifested this summer in Country
School Work. This interest has
brought out from seventy-five to
one hundred young people to
an Open Country Club Meeting
every Thursday evening of the sum-
mer term.

An Open Country Cub Confer-
ence was held here last Friday and
Saturday, July 7-8, which was at-
tended by large numbers of the
summer students and by County
Superintendents C. W. Selrars of
Brown county, W. F. Boyes of Knox,
M. M. Cook of Fulton, B. T. Deck-
er, McDonough, Geo. R. Hermetet of
Schuyler, and Assistant State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction U.
J. Hoffman.

Friday morning visitors were giv-
en an opportunity to inspect the
summer school and to look over the
Country School 'and Art Exhibits in
the Emersonian hall.

Friday afternoon addresses were
made by Mr. Hoffman and Miss
Mabel Carney. Mr. Hoffman spoke
on the Standardization of Country
Schools. He made clear the meaning
of the term, showed the advantages
to the children, and suggested what
teachers could do to bring about
standardization. Miss Carney is
secretary of the Illinois Federation
for Country Life Progress and spoke
on the Country Life Movement. Her
address was well received. She felt
that the Open Country Club of the
Military Tract could co-operate with
the Federation thru the movement
to improve country school condi-
tions.

Saturday morning the subject un-
der consideration was Ways and
Means of Standardizing Schools.
Talks were made by Miss Grote, tem-
porary chairman, Miss Mamie
Thomson. Miss Eula Cordell, Mr.
Lester C. Smith, and Mr. Glenn
Head. A short recess was taken to
inspect the exhibits and then the
matter of permanent organization
was considered. It was decided to
organize 'and the following officers
were elected:

President — Miss Caroline Grote,
Macomb.

Secretary — Miss Mamie E. Thom-
son, Biggsville.

Treasurer — Lester C. Smith, Ma-
rietta.

Chorister — Glenn Head, Macomb.

Executive Committee — Miss Grote,
Miss Thomson, 'and Miss Eula Cor-
dell of Macomb.

Committee to draft a Constitution
— Prin. Alfred Bayliss, Miss Ruth
Kennedy, and Miss Lenore Phillips.

This committee is to report at the
regular meeting tonight.

Miss Mamie Thomson was appoint-
ed to represent this Open Country
Club at the Illinois Federation for
Country Life Progress, which is to
meet at Bloomington this week and
she was authorized to enroll the
club for membership in the Federa-
tion.

A committee on resolutions was
appointed Friday. This committee
reported Saturday and the follow-
ing resolutions were adopted:

Resolved, That we will use the
pledge and method suggested by
our chairman on the encouragement
of school visitation to the best of
our ability, and report our success
at our next annual meeting.

Pesolved, That we, representa-
tives and members of the Open
Countrv Club of the Military Tract,
agree th'at for a year we will con-
centrate onr efforts toward the stan-
dardization of the country schools,
doing all we reasonably can, with-
out neglecting other duties, to co-
operate with our county superinten-
dents in their efforts to this end,
and th'at when conditions are such
that we can not complete the work
in one year, we will leave our field
in as good condition as possible for
our successors to take it up.

Resolved, That every Open Coun-
try Club in the Military Tract should
affiliate with, and whenever possible,
be represented at the meetings of the
Illinois Federation for Country Life
Progress.

The subject of standardizing coun-
try schools was one of the princi-
pal subjects discussed at this meet-
ing. Ways and means of doing so
were discussed by Miss Mamie
Thomson, Miss Eula Cordell, Mr.
Lester C. Smith, and Mr. Glenn
Head. Miss Grote was chairman of
the meeting and suggested a plan
for securing school visitation.

The Country J-'ciiool Exhibit was
inspected and prizes were 'awarded
District No. 52, Henderson county,
Miss .Mamie Thomson, teacher, and
District No. 53, McDonough county,
Miss Chloe Wilson, teacher, for best
exhibits.

The next annual meeting will be
held in Macomb some time during
the summer school next summer.

Proposed Constitution of the Wes-
tern Illinois Open Country
(Tub, No. 1.

Preamble.
The development of a Democracy
is dependent upon education. As
established agencies of education,
schools are. therefore, of fundament-
al importance. It is the aim and
purpose of the Open Country Clubs
of Western Illinois to increase the
efficiency of country and village
schools in as many ways as possible,
in harmony with the seventh plank
l.i the platform of the Illinois Feder-
ation tor Country Life Progress. To
tins end its membership is pledged,
individually and collectively, to

1. Co-op ?rate with county sup-
erintendents of schools in all their
plans for the betterment of the
teaching; in their efforts to hold the
lrrgest possible number of pupils to
the completion of the eighth grade;
;n the work of the County Teachers'
Institutes and Associations; in their
efforts to stimulate and maintain a
healthful public interest in the work-
of the schools; in their attempts to
stEndardize the physical equipments
of the schools: and, under their
leadership and advice, to do as much
.-? they are able to do to make the
public schools increasingly useful to
society.

2. To co-operate with one anoth-
er in the formation of Open Coun-
try Clubs until there shall be ah or-
ganization working auxiliary to the
public school in every district in
Western Illinois.

.1. To co-operate and affiliate with
the Illinois Federation for Country
Lie Progress; 'and

1. To be governed by the follow-
ing general constitution: —
Article I.

The name of this club shall be
The Western Illinois Open Country

(Continued on page 23)

The Western Courier.

Hoard of Managers.

Senior Louise Hainline

Junior George Salisbury

Academy George Mapes

Tenth Grade Jennie Walker

Ninth Grade Lena Culp

Traiaing School ..Myrrhene Newsome

Platonian W. O. Pendarvis

Emersonian Warner Watson

Country School Class

Wallace Shanks

Kappa Phi Gamma. . Martha McLean
Faculty. .Mr. White, Mr. Hursh,

Miss Davis
Ex-Officio Mr. Bayliss

EDITOR 777. GUY HOYT

ASST. EDITOR

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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The Courier would blush to
claim for itself all the rights,
privileges, and favors given to
city newspapers. It would not
for a moment compare itself
with the large papers as an
advertizing medium, neither
would it consider itself in their
class as a news dispenser.
Nevertheless it does believe it
reaches and entertains a cer-
tain group of people who pat-
ronize "home industries", that
is "Normal evenrs" about as
much as any journal of its
size in the Military Tract.
The Courier would feel bribed
to take free admittance to any
ot the above events but, of
course, being human it would
appreciate the material thanks
of those whose enterprises are
materially assisted thru its
free advertizing.

When Mr.Bayliss held a pict-
ure of a great man up before
the students, not one knew the
face of William Gladstone.

"See the game through."

Tut. VV'bb'rtKiv C<

Assistant Superintendent of Public
Instruction Mr. U. G. Hoffman while
present last Friday at the Open Coun-
try Club meeting was called on for a
Chapel talk. His theme clustered on
the following words:

What you will be, depends on the
company you have kept and will keep
from now on."

He also spoke of the duty of his of-
ice which is to visit different schools
over the state in an attempt to per-
suade the citizens of their respective
districts to furnish their schoolhouses
with an equipment that will be sanitary
and profitable for the children who are
forced to attend school a certain num-
ber of months per year.

To an idealist, it seems absurd that
it should be necessary for a man to
appeal to citizens to do the very
things which are obviously for their
own benefit. However such is the case
and will be until doomsday is very
close at hand.

Miss Shamel sang two very delight-
ful songs in Chapel Friday, one from
ShakespeareV'Tempest" and another
from "As You Like It".

Several students attended the fun-
eral of Mr. David Jeffries near New
Philadelphia last Monday, that gentle-
man being the father of Will Jeffries, a
member of the ' 1 I Academic graduat-
ing class.

The prize which Mr. Bayliss has
offered to the best individual speller in
the Match tomorrcw evening is a Sci-
ence History of the Universe in ten
volumes. The volumes deal with An-
thropology, Art and Letters, Astrono-
ny, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Math-
ematics, Philosophy, Physics, Zoology.
This is indeed a prize worth the effort.

Mr. Glenn Head and Mr. W.H.Fritz
are captains of the two opposing spell
ing teams. All students whether good
or poor spellers should enlist with one
or the other companies for two reasons,
viz: The Match will be of value to poor
and good spellers alike; It will be amus-
ing and entertaining.

Mr. C. E. Lawyer, at one t:'
pal of the Macomb High School, later
principal of tne Canton High School,
ana now principal of the Danville high
school war; in the city on bu
Monday and visited the Normal for a
few minutes talk with old friends.

Monday. July 10. Street Carnival
opens. Faculty attend. Curly be
a fan to fan Currie.

Mr. Raymond D. Tabor, Northern
agent of the Tuskegee Normal and
industrial Institute gave a very Inl
ing talk in chapel last Thursday about
the work ot that great and unique in-
stitution. Tuskegee is net only a
great school for the colored race, but
it has been an example of the practic-
al in education for all schools without
reference to the special people for
whom it is designed.

Mr. Hayes Fuhr writes from Culver.
Indiana: "The school is a very super-
ior one, and quite up to my expecta-
tions. I shall be pretty busy but the
work will be pleasant." Mr. Fuhr is
doing the work in music for the Sum
mer at Culver.

Mr. Oswell Treadway, '10. has
been employed as high school princi-
pal in the city of Richmond. III. which
is located very near the north line of
the state in a very beautiful county.

The high schocl building has ju.vt
been completed at a cost of $25,000
and is modern in every way. Mr.
Treadway will have supervision over
five teachers and receives a yearly
wage of $900.

The Emersonian Hall has been the
scene of a very interesting exhibit of
work done by country school pupils.
Some excellent articles in construe
tion are on exibition there besides sev-
eral samples of composition and other
school work. The exhibition is in
charge of Miss Mamie Thompson and
is worth a visit to the west end of the
building to see.

Hot! Hotter!! Hottest!!!

TllJi WL&TliKiS CuUKiLK

(Continued from page 21)

Club, Xo. , of District No. ,

County of .

Article II.

Upon the formation of an Open
Country Club of not fewer than five
members, the president or secretary
thereof may apply to the secretary
of Club Xo. 1, for a number, and
the said secretary shall thereupon
assign the next numbers in sequence;
its number may be assigned to a
newly organized club.

Article II.

Any teacher may become a mem-
ber of Club Xo. 1 by paying to the
treasurer the sum of twenty-five
rents and signing this constitution.
A.ny member of this club may org-an-
i-e another Open Country Club, and
rll subsequently organized clubs may
determine their own qualifications
for membership, but it is deemed es-
pecially desirable that school officers
and parents be included in the mem-
bership whenever possible.
Article IV.

Each club will adopt such by-
laws, rules of order and member-
ship fees, etc., as its members con-
sider desirable.

Article V.

Whenever the number of Open
Country Clubs shall become 100, it
shall be the duty of the Club Xo. 1
to call a meeting of delegates from
the several clubs to piovide for or-
ganizations in accordance with Ar-
ticle III, Section 2, of the constitu-
tion of the Illinois Federation for
Country Life Progress.

Marguerite Hunter, of Table Grove, a
Junior last year, visited friends around
the school this week. She says she will
probably be back for the Senior work
next year.

The address at the Ninth
Graduation Thursday morning
July 20, will be given by Mr. R.
E.Hieronymus, formerly Pres-
ident of Eureka College and
now Secretary of the Educa-
tional Commission. His topic
will be "The Work of the
Educational Commission of
Illinois". It will be of interest
both to teachers and the
public.

One more week. And then-?

A LETTER FROM THE
ISLANDS

Bay, Laguma, P. I., .May 24, 1011.
Mr. Alfred Bayliss,

Macomb, Illinois, U. S. A.
Dear Mr. Bayliss:

Through the kindness of the Dii
ector of Education I obtained a
transfer from Xagcarlan to the City
Schools of Manila. This change was
effected sooner that what was look-
! for, and so it came to me as a
surprise.

Perhaps it will interest you to
know that during a year and four
months of active work in the dis-
trict of Xagcarlan a few changes had
been noticeable. The attendance of
three hundred thirty-two pupils in
August, 1909, reached the thousand
mark in Xovember, 1910; the five
schools in August, 1909, numbered
seven by Xovember, 1910, two of
which had been organized and built
by the barris people without a cent
expended from the government funds.
! am glad to say that the people in
Xagcarlan are now beginning to see
the importance of education for the
mass, and they are responding to the
need with the spirit of "push" which
so characterized the American peo-
ple. If there was anything of im-
prrtance which I tried to accomplish
daring my stay at Xagcarlan, it was
to make the people feel the problem
of education and to make them real-
ize their solemn obligation toward
it. How far I succeeded in doing so
I am not able to state; their future
attitude toward education is the on-
ly standard of measure.

My transfer to Manila is my per-
sonal advantage. Being in the cen-
ter of commerce, industries, and of
the highest or advanced education
in the islands, there are vast oppor-
tunities for an ambitious, wideawake
person. I have an opportunity for
self-improvement here — a chance I
do not desire to let pass unnoticed.

Beginning, July, 1911, I shall be-
gin the study of law in the Univer-
sity of the Phillipines. The class
begins at either five-thirty or six-
thirty in the evening, so it will not
interfere with my regular work in
the Bureau of Education. I met
the secretary of the college some-
time ago, who stated that there is
no question as to my admission in-
to the university; but he desires to
have, for the sake of record, a cer-
tificate of recommendation from my
principal. So, if you would furnish
me 'a certificate, recommending en-
trance into the university tosether
with my conduct, scholarship, hab-

its, etc., I would not only be glad
but also grateful for the favor.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Bay-
liss and yourself, I am,

Yours sincerely,

JOSE' TEODORO.

like County Picnic.

Pike county students enjoyed a
very pleasant picnic in the ravine
last Wednesday evening. This was
?iven by Charles and Sarah Riley,
siudents from that county, and Miss
Atkinson and Miss Grote. A good
picnic supper, including ice cream,
was served; stories were told; and
a general good time was enjoyed.

A iss Grote and Miss Atkinson,
members of the faculty, were both
born in Pike county. The former
s^piit the greater part of her life
Kpve before coming to Macomb. The
latter spent enough years there to
c: 11 herself a Pike countian.

The students present were the
Misses Ada Diamond, Mildred Fraz-
ier, Ethel Higdon, Mary Hoskin,
Ruth Hendricks, Effie Kendall, Eva
Mas^n, Mabel Marion, and Sarah
Riley, Mrs. Florence Harlow, and
Messrs. Easley, Fenton, Kane, Riley,
a I'd Waters. Miss Hester Hoskin
and Mr. Ross Xichol were unable to
be present. Miss Augusta Grote, not
a student, but a Pike countian was
also there.

The crowd had a good time and
wpnt home feeling that it was good
to belong to Pike county.

The following is quoted from the
Kirksville Index for the special benefit
ot those who wish to enter the spelling
match.

"If an S and an I and an O and a U

With an X at the end spell Su,

And an E and a Y and E spell I,

Pray what is a speller to do?
Then if also an S and an I and a G

And an H E D spell side.
There's nothing much left for a
speller to do
But go and commit Sioux eye-
sighed."

Howard McMillan and Alice Davis,
both former students here, were mar-
ried a short time ago.

How many good spellers can tell
how to spell "receive" after thinking
about ten seconds?

The Western Courier

FINE ART EXHIBIT
The third floor corridor and
the Emersonian Mall have
been the scene of a very in-
teresting art exhibit during the
past week. The Illinois Feder-
ation of Women's Clubs has
made this possible and by
this the Federation is materi-
ally assisting the advance-
ment of a love for art among
school children of this state.
The material on exhibition
can be divided into four dis-
tinct groups, namely: Pottery,
Oil Paintings, Water Color
Paintings, and a Model Col-
lection of Masterpieces for a
Public School.

POTTERY

The pottery ware was dis-
played on a table near the
center of the Emersonian
Hall and was made up of
some very superior specimens
in clay work. Some of the best
known manufactures in the
United States had ware on ex-
hibition there. A few pieces
were made by the Greuby
Company of Boston. Several
articles are of the well known
Hampshire ware. The Rook-
wood Company also has sever-
al specimens and with them a
handbook describing the ware.
The Teco Company and the
Markham Company of Chica-
go wares are among the col-
lection the Club Federation
has selected. Besides these
beautiful vases and cups, sev-
eral smaller companies have
contributed to the store.
These, indeed, make a very
interesting and valuable ex-
hibit for those who are inter-
ested in moulding and clay
work in general.

OIL PAINTINGS

All of the paintings arc the
productions of Illinois artists

many of whom have taught or
studied at the Art Institute in
Chicago. Of course they arc-
not masterpieces as one thinks
of masterpieces of the artists
of the Renaissance but are well
done and are valuable in that
they are original.

There are thirty-five oil
paintings in the collectin
and they are entirely worth a
careful study. Among the lead-
ing workers in oil in this state
are A. E. Albright, a painter
of children's pictures; Mrs.
Pauline Palmer, who is at
her best with juvenile poses,
and Mrs. Anna L.Stacey, whose
best work in the collection is
the "Starfish". W. H. Bar-
nitz seems to be a very capa-
ble portrait painter but there
are several others of equal
skill.

WATER COLOR PAINTINGS

The Water Color pieces
number seventy-five in all and
are superior works in many
ways. The leading artists in
this line are: William Chees-
mann, D. C. Watson, and M.
E. Myrick. Among the finest
in this line is a pot of roses
painted by Gertrude Esta-
brooke. Interest is added to
this lady when it is known
that Miss Buckner has paint-
ed with her.

Some of the Water Color
works are remarkably clear
yet harmonious. From some
of the scenes, one would judge
they were painted from land-
scapes of our own state.

MODEL COLLECTION

The Federation of Wom-
en's Clubs is sending a Model
Collecticn of paintings for the
Public School over the state
with the hope of eventually
bringing about a condition
where every school building

will be suppied with the*
works fcr the constant study
and enjoyment of the school
children. The collection com-
prises in all twenty-nine pict-
ures selected with consider-
able care from the Old World.

Mrs. Sarah Frost of New York City
will give an illustrated lecture next
Wednesday evemr.g in the Auditori-
um on the City of London. This will
be interesting and instructive and is
free to all.

The janitors have been furnished
with a new vacuum cleaner which is
very serviceable in cleaning rugs. It is
propelled by electricity but is very little
larger than an ordinary carpet sweeper.
However, Mr. Fetters informs the
Courier that the machine dees the
work.

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Capital, Surplus and Profit $146000.00

Macomb's oldest and largest bank

OFFICERS

ALBERT'EADS J. W. BAILEY

President Cashier

B. F. MCLEAN L. F. GUMBART

Vice Pres. Ass't Cashie

The Western Courier.

Vol.. [X, No. VII

Macomb, Illinois, July 20 191

Copy 5 Cents

ENTERED AS SECOND-CLAS

I A R . 3 . 1 9 O 8 . A 1

IE POST OFFICE AT MACOI
MARCH 3. 1879

ACT OF CONGRESS

PROGRAMME.

Processional "The Purple and Gold"

Invocation Rev. J. F. Rogers

Piano Solo, "Hark! Hark! the Lark!" (Liszt-
Schubert) Miss Dunsworth

Address, "The AVork of the Illinois Education-
al Commission," R. E3. Hieronymus, Sec-
retary of the Commission.

Music. "An Old Song" Nevin

First Violin Miss Helen D-allam

Second Violin Miss Dorothy Stinson

Cello Miss S. B. Davis

Piano Miss Maud Shamel

Presentation of Academic Diplomas, by Mr. S. B.
Hursh, Vice Principal.

Charles Burgoyne Andalusia

Roy M. Sallee Gerlaw

Simon Simonson 1 uSmithshire

Earl Wilson Colchester

Presentation of Normal Diplomas by Hon. John M.
Keefer, of the Board of Trustees.

Birdie Brown Macomb

Anna L. Culver Canton

Anne Durr Evanston

Caroline Grote Pittsfield

Cora M. Hamilton Pontiac

Roy M. Sallee Gerlaw

Fannie L. Stevens Macomb

Justin A. Stewart Carthage

Post Graduate Diploma in Domestic Science,

Lauretta E. Finlay, Burlington, Iowa

Presentation of Post Graduate Certificates by the
Principal.

Hazel C. Butterfield, 190S Macomb

Mary Kirk, 1909 Macomb

Sadie McMillen, 1908 Champaign

Jan a Morey, 1907 Macomb

Henrietta E. Nolkemper, 1908 Quincy

Music, Double Trio —

"Winds in the Trees" Thomas-Synes

"How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon the

Bank" Callcott

Misses Kennedy, Wyne, McGillivray, Has-
selb-acher, Dark, and Cordell.
"God he With You Till We Meet Again."

CLASS OF 1911.

Where Some of Them Will Teach
Next Year.

Garnet Payne, Township High
School, Marissa.

Loretta Braun, Bushnell.

Louise Hainline, Primary Super-
visor, Kewanee.

Maude Van Antwerp, Principal,
Brooklyn.

Gladys Vawter, Macomb.

Clara Upham, Macomb.

Edith Moody, Moline.
Roy Sallee, Principal, Reynolds.
Agnes Crawford, Salt Lake City,
Utah.

Ruth Swartz, Atkinson.
Harriet Mcllhenny, Keithsburg.
Inez Avery, near Moline.
Eva McMillan, Perry.
Edith Motter, Tuscola.
Fanny Stevens, Rushville.
Lola Foster, Monmouth.
Alice Morris will study at the Uni-
versity of Illinois.

THAT SPELLING MATCH

The annual Spelling Match, which
was held in the gymnasium last Fri-
day night, was well attended, and
proved to be both interesting and
Instructive. The entire charge of
the match was given over to Mr.
Dickerson, who conducted it in a
manner new to most of the students,
but very satisfactory to all.

Mr. Glenn Head with the purple
and Mr. W. H. Fritz with the gold
were captains of the two opposing
teams. The teams were not equally
divided in numbers but were some-
what equal in ability. The spellers
were seated in six semi-circular sec-
tions around the gymnasium, the
sections alternating with the purple
and gold spellers.

The entire faculty body were pro-
nouncers, each member having se-
lected words from his special line of
work. By beginning at different
points and passing quickly alng the
line, each person was spelling prac-
tically the whole time. After about
an hour of -spelling after this fashion,
the score was counted, which cred-
ited the purple team with fifty-three
scores agains the gold team's twenty-
two; a score being given as any per-
son passed from one section into his
opponent's section upon spelling ;v
word correctly after it had been
missed by one or more in the section
into which he passed.

Those who wished were allowed to
"stand up and spell down" in the
old-fashioned manner. This group
soon became well sorted, leaving
only the very best spellers until the
last. Finally the first and second
prize rested between Miss Daisy
Pierce and Miss Dorris Fischer. The
latter mispelled phosphorescence,
which g?ve Miss Pierce the ten vol-
ume "Science of the Universe" of-
fered by Mr. Bayliss, and Miss
Fischer received the four neatly
hound volumes on "Public School
Methods."

Some time previous Mr. Bayliss
had offer to each of the ten who were
the last to be seated a rather fine
print of the Normal building. Those
who received these were Herman
McCoy, Augusta Greuel, Leona Dra-

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Senior Louise Hainline

Junior George Salisbury

Academy George Mapes

Tenth Grade Jennie Walker

Ninth Grade Lena Culp

Training School.. Myrrhene Newsome

Platonian W. O. Pendarvis

Emersonian Warner Watson

Country School Class

Wallace Shanks

Kappa Phi Gamma. .Martha McLean
Faculty. .Mr. White, Mr. Hursh,

Miss Davis
Ex-Officio Mr. Bayliss

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Only one more day and you
will be free to spend your time
for a few weeks very much as
you desire. Some may desire
to fish and if fishing- is the
thing, then fish and read fish
stories. If you do not fish then
reading is the best thing. The
eight weeks now open can be
made very valuable by read-
ing. The fact as to the par-
ticular kind of reading one
should do is the all important
one. There is much in the fieid
of Fiction and also a great
quantity in the fields of Sci-
ence and History. There is
yet another type that em-
braces all phases of reading
matter. The popular Maga-
zines are invaluable to both
teacher and student. There
are magazines of fiction, mag-
azines of science, magazines
of literature and current hap-
penings, in short magazines
found on the newsdealers'
stands are worth your reading
and to miss them is to miss

something all teachers should
have.

Speaking of vacations, the
Courier is informed that Mr.
White and Mr. Felters will
take a vacation tour in
Chicago during the aviation
meet. While both gentlemen
claim pleasure and recreation
is the main object in view,
there are some who believe
that a lucrative position
awaits them there. It is
thought that one of the com-
panies manufacturing an
anti-fat remedy has engaged
them to demonstrate the
merits of their medicine. Mr.
White will represent the con-
dition "before taking" and
Mr. Felters "after taking".
Altho this conjecture may not
be true, the Chicagoans will
have an opportunity to see
two loyal Normalites even if
they are not congruent.

Can you name the mixture?
Martha McLean offers Mr.
White a recipe made up of
one pound butter, one pound j
cheese, one pint milk, and a
dozen eggs.

Resolved: —

That at the next
Spelling Match the pronoun-
cers pronounce only words
that may be used at least once
during a life-time, and that
proper names taken from
prehistoric records be ex-
cluded.

A. D. P. Speller.

.Miss Grote is working out a plan
by which slate course of study wo-k
in Summer School may count toward
the Normal School Country School
Training Course work. The Courier
approves.

An interesting feature of our sum-
mer course of entertainment*. - i
Miss Frost's stereoptican lect •-
London, given in the auditorium
nesday evening. Miss Frost has spent
much time in Europe, particularly in
London, and her interesting description
of the places and people in the great
metropolis is due largely to her famil-
iarity with the subject. Miss Frost
showed about seventy-five slides, many
of them colored, and the views of the
Poet's Comer, of the great Coronation
Chair, of St. Paul's Cathedral, and
many other famous buildings, gave us
a glimpse of some great historic
places of London The lecture
seemed to be thoroly enjoyed by the
students.

Harold Gumbart, a graduate of our
Academy, has passed the examination
required for entrance to the Carnegie
Technical School at Pittsburg, Penn.
This school does not admit students
to its course on the merits of a high
school diploma but requires an exam-
ination. The fact that Mr. Gumbart
has passed this test speaks well for his
ability as a scholar and no doubt h*
will make a success in Electrical
Engineering, the course he proposes
to take.

The four new paintings on thp
walls of the auditorium certainly are
easy to look at, but just listen (with
your mind's ear) to the strains of
the new pipe organ — to come some
day, some time.

The forty -seventh Gencial Assem-
i bly deserves a credit mark as long as
from Cairo to Galena for the addi-
tional help it has given the educa
tional office.

Mr. J. E. McGilvrey, head of
the department of education, re-
ceived a telegram Tuesday announcing
his election to the presidency of the
Northeastern Ohio State Normal
School, which is to be located at
Kent. The building has not yet been
planned, so Mr. McGilvrey will work
in conjunction with the state architect.
His many friends will regret very much
to see him leave but will wish him the
best of success in rns new undertaking.

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heim, Daisy Bos well, Zula Francis,
i Jessie Martin, Wilma Childs, Lulu
-Cain, Ruth Lucas, Lois Cordell.

Those to receive fourth prize,
which was a school calendar, were:
Eda Manuell, Laura Tribbey, Mary
Owens, Nora O'Leary, Lester Smith,
Clarence Clute, Anna M. Marple,
' Flora Lamb, Grant Payne, Elsie
Goeke, Stella Baker, Clementine
Stevenson, Glenn Head, Eva Hassel-
I bacher, Alberta Balmar, Blenda
r.ergstone, Edna Kien, and Carrie
Weigand.

After this distribution of the
prizes, .Mr. Ward 8ayIor challenged
the winner, through his special rep-
resentative, Wallace McConnell, Miss
Pierce accepted, and Mr. Bayliss, act-
ing; as pronouncer, overwhelmed Mr.
Taylor on the third word, which Miss
Pierce spelled correctly. This fatal
|| word was none other than the sel-
dom used one, "asafetida."

In all the Spelling Match was val-
• uable, in that some people learned to
spell a few words that have always
: been difficult, but much more was the
benefit obvious to those who will
teach next year where a Spelling
Match of this nature would be one of
the few social occasions in the com-
munity.

We are glad to note that the Wil-
liam and Vashti (Henderson county)
new college is prospering. The
friends of the institution are raising
an endowment of $2,000 to keep it in
operation. The Courier's notion is a
standardized school in every district,
a two-year high school in every town-
ship, a four-year accredited high
school in every city of 3,000 and up-
ward, and in all other cities able to
afford it, and a college in every coun-
ty. Usually one college in a county
will answer every purpose. In addi-
tion to this, the state should continue
its liberal treatment of the five nor-
mal schools already established and
pay half the expense of a normal
school in each county.

Why not "carry" at least one sub-
ject by correspondence next year?
This question is as pertinent to Nor-
mal graduates as to other teacher
students.

When you come back to the sum-
mer term of 1913, it is expected that
the new Woman's Building will be
completed. Perhaps the summer
students of 1912 will have the first
opportunity to occupy it.

FOUR FINE PAINTINGS
In the original planning of the
auditorium, four large panels were
made in the walls, two back of the
wide aisle and two before it. It has
been the desire of the trustees and
faculty for several years to fill the«e
panels with suitable oil paintings,
and steps toward that end were be-
gun four or five years ago. However,
not until last Saturday was this at-
tained. Herbert Connor, one of the
foremost artists in the country, hat
been engaged for several months in
painting four canvasses representa-
tive of early Illinois history. These
were mounted last week and have
this week been retouched by the ar-
tist for the purpose of making them
better harmonize with their surround-
ings. At this writing they are com-
pleted, and it is not too strong a
statement to say they add treble to
the former beauty of the room.

Tn selecting the subjects for the
four Lintels mentioned above, the
artist was aided very materially by
some of the best historians of the
state, Judge L. Y. Sherman of Spring-
field being one of the number, ft was
largely a question of elimination for
there are so many interesting facts in
the history of Illinois that would be
fine subjects for illustration that to
choose four of them all over the state
would prove a difficult matter. So it
was decided to use those scenes that
related to the Military Tract in which
the school is located. It was also
decided to go back to the earliest
period of the white man's invasion
and bring up to nearly the present
time.

The painting on the right side of
the room and nearest the stage re-
presents the winter quarters of Mar-
quette in 1674, which was the fir&t
house built in Illinois to house a
white man. Father Marquette had
been doing missionary work along
the shores of Lake Michigan in the
vicinity of Green Bay, when he de-
cided to visit the Illinois country.
Traveling down the lake to the mouth
of the Chicago river, he entered this
waterway, but had proceeded a few
miles when the ice blocked his pro-
gress. Here he and his party built
a very rude log hut where the win-
ter was passed.

The incident in this camp as the
artist has represented it is as follows:
Father Marquette with one French-
man and two Indians is returning
from a walk in the evning solitude of
the forest. On nearing the camp
the two Indians discuss the advis-

ability of returning to the forest af-
ter some game because they have no-
ticed that their friends have during
their absence sacked game and are
now engaged in preparing supper for
themselves. The path in which
Father Marquette is returning con-
verges with the beaten track made by
the Indians in going to the river for
water. An Indian maiden returning
from the watering place to the log
mut, meets the group as they are re-
turning from the forest and out of
deep respect for Father Marquette
steps from her path into the loose
snow and with bowed head allows (ho
missionary to precede her to the
camp.

The artist's work is excellent. The
figures are perfect and the setting is
realistic yet romantic. The excel-
lence of the work combined with the
beauty of the particular incident
make this painting one that will be
long a reminder of early Illinois days.
The panel on the right side and
to the rear of the room represents
Fort Dearborn as it stood about 1821.
The old fort occupies the most promi
nent place in the painting with the
Chicago river flowing from the fore-
ground toward th distance. To the
rear of the fort. Lake Michigan fe
shown with waves tossing in confus-
ion. This is a very beautiful picture
of a real place and for that reason
lacks some of the interest a picture
of life anl action gives.

Directly west in the panel in the
rear of the room, the ruins of the old
Mormon Temple at Nauvoo are re-
presented. The pile of ruins occu-
pies the main position in the fore-
ground but the back ground is beau
tiful by the view of the Mississippi
river and the Iowa shore. The old
walls of this beautiful temple offer
a fine subject for the artist, and hi
his treatment of it, Mr. Connors has
succeeded in getting a painting that
has received much favorable com-
ment.

The last of the group which is on
the left wall near the stage is a
scene taken from the old historic
site of Starved Rock on the Illinois
river. The special point in the his-
tory of the state as it occurred at this
point was the "Last Stand of the II-
lini." The picture shows the sur-
rounding valley as it can be seen
from the highest point on the rock.
In the foreground stands a tall, well
balanced Indian.

The incident the artist wished to
portray is as follows:

The Illini Indians were engaged in

The Western O

war against the neighboring tribes
anl were becoming weaker anl weak-
er with each succeeding battle. As a
last resort the band took refuge on
Shis high promontory. The passage
from their supposed place of safety
was blocked and all sources of water
and food were completely shut off.
The last living Indian looked about
over his dead comrades and in the
picture is seen standing at the edge
of the cliff, using his unstrung bow
as a staff, gazing for the last time
over the great valley, the home of
him and his tribe.

The artist has done a wonderful
work in this figure. The red man
stands with graceful poise; the form
is athletic but the face bears that
Took of a forlorn longing. In short
the figure is so striking that all the
attributes that could be woven into
it are dependent on the fancy of
the person observing it. This paint-
ing is a work any artist may proudly
claim. It adds a glory to the sur-
roundings and most of all has a
pleasing reaction on the spectator.

Taking the group as a whole, the^e
could surely have been no better se-
lection made. Those who have mad';
it possible have done something of
which they may justly feel proud
and the artist whose brush produced
the paintings has made himself a
lasting monument.

Those who are artistically inclined
when viewing these works feel the
truth given by an old poet, "A thing
of beauty is a joy forever."

Last week, two graduates of this
*' hool were given certificates of grad-
nation, which were exchangeable for
teachers' certificates In good cities in
Talifornia. It should be noticed,
however, that the certificates requir-
ed it to be stated that the Normal
course had been at least two years,
and had been preceded by a four-
year high school course, and the high
(school had to be named. It had also
to be stated that the high school
course was preceded by the custo-
mary eighth grade elementary
fourse. This is about the standard
preparation of teachers.

When you think of it, the summer
BC&Ool of L911 has not been short in
its offerings for general culture. The
CoIIedge Lectures, The Cobttrn Play
ers, and President Hferonymus make
a right good list.

-,u handed Miss Davis your
little p. t. p. for July 12, 1!M2':

A LETTER

Prin. Alfred Bayiiss,

Macomb, Illinois.

Dear Mr. Bayiiss:

I have today arranged to re-
main in the University anothei year.
My course has worked out so much
better than I expected that 1 will be
able to make both Bachelor's and
Master's Degrees next June.

Since coming here fast July, 5
have done fifty hours work. This with
the sixty allowed on my Normal diplo-
ma leaves me only twenty on my A.B.
Ten of these will be finished this sum-
mer and six by special examination,
which leaves me only four to workout in
addition to my graduate work, which
will not make it very heavy. At least,
I feel like it can be done and I mean
to make a try at it.

The position at Tiskilwa turned
out to be a $1300 position, instead of
$1400. I had said $1400, or the Uni-
versity another year, and University it
is.

! note with mnch pleasure that
you secured the appropriation for your
much needed Woman's Building;
accept congratulations on your success.
Next a new training school and gym-
nasium adequate to the needs of the
school.

Through the Courier f leam of
the increased attendance and interest
at the summer term. If the weather
persists in being as hot over there as
here, I imagine you are having a warm
time.

The summer term here is mov-
ing nicely. Dr. Balliet is with us this
week, giving a very inteiesting series
oi lectures. Among other things he
told us yesterday "That we are not al-
ways tired, when we feel tired, and that
we are often very tired when we do
not feel tired." Either view should be
comforting to a University student.

Hoping next year may be the
most successful in the history of the
school. I am.

Very truly,

O. A. Towns.

Have you subscribed {or the
Courier for next year?

From now on, we can blame i
bad weather on Ben West, a rr.<:
of the class of '12. He, so the Cc
is informed, has been appointed to a
position on the Weather Bureau force
with his station somewhere in Florida.
The particulars are not forthc
but when they do come will be more
definitely given.

Mr. C. E Alton has just finished a
mercury barometer which reads exact-
ly like the $35.00 barometer in the
Physics room. The material cost him
only $1.00.

Why go without a barometer?

Mr. M. V. Lanthorn, 1910, has i
principalship at Chebance, III. at a
salary of $10.") a month. There arc
five teachers in the Chebance schoois.
and the building i uew and up to
dite. Chebance is eight miles south
of Kankakee on the I. C. R. R. Th-'-
Courier wishes Lanthorn all possible
success.

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A WORD OF APPRECIATION

THE SCHOOL HAS LOST
A TRUE FRIEND

It is altogether fitting that the
Courier should give a full account of
the life and work cf our honored
principal, and in the near future
such will he done. At present we
can but express our grief and sym-
pathy with those who most grieve,
and express briefly our sense of loss
in coming together for the new
school year to find that Mr. Bayliss
has gone from us. It is easily seen
that the student body feels keenly
his death, and the flag at half-mast
is but a feeble expression of our feel-
ing of personal loss.

It is most sad that he should have
to go just when his real influence
began to be truly felt and under-
stood. These first five years was a
kind of clearing the way; his plant-
ing now begins to bear fruit and, if
he could have remained a few years
longer, he weld have realized a
larger measurer of satisfaction than
nis innate molesty would permit him
to hope.

The normal school problems Mr.
Bayliss had undertaken are of such
character that time is required to
bring results. He led in the educa-
tional and social betterment of the
one room rural school. Already a
number of graduates of this school
have chosen to teach in the country
in preference to the town, and the
results have been exceedingly grati-
fying.

Norma] school extension by corre-
! ondence he conceived to be a means
of assisting those who were of such
age and experience as would war-
rant their doing work in that way,
and continue their work in teach-
ing. A large number of students are
now systematically pursuing some
study along with their teaching.

The Country Club, as a means es-
pecially of raising the rural school
as far as poss ; hl<» to the standard set
by the Superintendent of Public In-
struction, received his earnest sup-
port; and no student organization of
last, year showed such numbers 0* -
enthusiasm as the Country Club No.
1 organized here last summer.

The nearness and common sympa-
thy of students and faculty of the
Western Normal School is a larger
exj ression of the freedom and candor
with which h^ conferred with stu-
dents. Under ^is administration the
si hool has h'ai gradual but positive
growth into definiteness of organi-
zation, purpose and strength.

In this he did a splendid work, and
his influence will be a part of its life
and growth; hut it is for those royal
qualities of manhood that we will
cherish the dearest recollections of
Mr. Bayliss. What he thought should
be done, he did without fear. He
could look so coolly on all sides of
a question and see the other man's
viewpoint as w-el! as his own. He
seemed never to forget the one who
needed and wanted a chance. His
sympathies were hroad and deep
toward his fellows and toward truth
and the open mind seemed the law of
his life.

We were «tov to understand him
by the very fac* of his modesty; for
he did more kindnesses in secret than
those seen. Truly h° let not his left
hand know what his right hand did.
Jn this his life is -3 most beautiful
lesson. But we who come to know
him flind many great lessons from
his daily life. The dignity of work,
the sanctity of true work was a law
to him, and all who knew him in his
work, know that he obeyed the law.

He was so fair in his decisions.
Self-interest seemed to have no place
in his nature and his sense of justice
and truth eliminated prejudice. The
purity of his life, public and private,
put him in 'lie front rank of earth's
nobility. It is for these deep and
abiding qualities of character that
we shall honor and cherish the name
o*' Alfred Bayliss.

The Young Men's Christian Associ-
ation and the Young Women's Chris-
tian Association meet regularly in the
Music Room and Platonian Hall res-
pectively, every Tuesday at six forty
five o'clock. All students are invited to
attend one or the other of these meet-
ings.

McGILVREY CHOSEN

AS PRESIDENT

A MAN OF EXPERIENCE
AND ABILITY

Immediately after the death of Mr
Baylis? the Board of Trustees ap-
pointed John E. McGilvrey acting
president of the school. Mr. McGilvrey
was Director of the Department of Ed-
ucation and Supervisor of the training
school last year and in that work has
won the respect and friendship of fac-
ulty and students,

He graduated from the four year
course at the Indiana State Normal
School. Directly after graduating he
taught in that school and was later
principal of the Paris, 111., high school.

He graduated from the Indiana
State University, receiving the Bach-
elor's Degree from the school of Edu-
cation and Philosophy. After this he
was principal of the high school at
Freeport, 111. He left that position to
be Assistant Professor of Pedagogy
and High School Inspector at the Uni-
versity of 111. In 1898 he became pres-
ident of the Cleveland City Normal
School remaining there ten years.
Upon his resignation there he was
chosen Superintendent of the Cleveland
City Farm Scho»l at Hudson, Ohio, a
school for delinquent boys. From that
he came to this school. Last spring he
was elected president of the Kent,
Ohio, State Normal School now in the
course of construction. The new posi-
tion did not demand his entire time so
at Mr. Bayliss' request he had con-
sented to teach here this year.

The students who have been under
his instruction are free in expressing
their high estimate of his ability. The
regret of all who know him is that he
has to leave the school at the close of
this year's work.

The Western Co urier.

Board of Managers.

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASST. EDITOR

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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EDITORIAL

September 18 saw the beginning of
the tenth school year that the West-
ern Illinois State Normal School has
survived. The first attempt to conduct
a school was begun in the unfinished
building in 1902. This fact caused
much confusion but instruction was
continued from year to year under
the principalship of Mr. Henninger.
It was not until 1906 that every detail
was complete and it was at that time
that Alfred Bayliss, the late principal,
took charge of the school. Several
changes in the faculty were made and
several new courses were offered.

In the years following the school
grew steadily in attendance and very
rapidly in favor with the foremost
educators of the middle west. Altho
the youngest of the five Normals in
the state it is equal in practically all
respects to the best and in some par-
ticulars, buildings, equipment, and
natural surroundings, surpasses some
of its sister schools. At the instigation
of Mr. Bayliss changes and improve-
ments were made from year to year
that always served to uplift and bette r
the existing conditions.

Now that it has thus far progressed,
it is very important that the growth be
continued, and in spite of the sad blow
caused by Mr. Bayliss' death, this year
should be made the banner year. You
who are new to the school, as yet feel
little direct interest in its future wel-
fare but e'er you have studied and
grown for years under the favorable
influences here, you will feel a vital
interest and deep respect for every
effort that is made to perpetuate the

URN COURIEI

good name our late president has so
firmly established. No watchword
could be more appropriate than a sen-
tence Mr Bayliss uttered not many
months ago, "Our immediate wish is
to join hands with all the 'Boosters' to
make the Decennial year of the
W.I.b.N.S a memorable one in its
life."

IMI ROVEMENTS

Trustee Keefer, acting on the order
of the entire Board, is having six new
electric cluster lamp posts located
abcut the building. Two will stand very
close to the large granite balls at the
front entrance, two at the east entrance
on the retaining wall and the other
two will be located in a similar posi-
tion near the west entrance. Each
post will support five globes and
they will no doubt furnish excellent
light and also add to the beauty of the
grounds in daylight and darkuess.

FOOTBALL OUTLOOK

Judging from external appearances
the outlook for a strong football team
is the most promising we have had
in several years. The new coach is
working the boys pretty hard but they
are developing rapidly under his sup-
ervision and al> are hopeful for the
game Saturday.

Five of the old "hands" are work-
ing nicely and with the promising re-
cruits, are running thru some pract-
ical signal practice. Wetzel, the re-
maining guard of last year is captain.
Standard who p'ayed an excellent
game last year in the half back's po-
sition is in his usual form. Foster, the
swift little end who survived last year's
struggles, is again in a suit altho it
took considerable talking to convince
him his services were needed. Black
who played at end last year is also on
deck but on account of an accident in
the manual training room which result-
ed in a deep gash on the wrist, is
put out of practice temporarily.
Huey a last year's "sub" is working out
nicely and promises to be a good man.

Among the amateurs Wyne and
Garrison are reported to be doing good
practice. Ralph Wilson who starred

on a team two

the management is bank;.

... In
addition to him, Stickle a heavy man
from the local High in a

purple and gold uniform a:, i
up well. Stevens, another M.H.S
is making a strong showing at qua rter.
Among many others who 2.^1 in
G. Erwin, L. Smith, and Lew
are working out well.

The Athletic Association has pro-
vided new shoes, stockings, new pants,
and a very brilliant set of jerseys for
this season's work. The boys will
make their first public appearance
Saturday afternoon in a game wiih
the Kewanee High School on the
home field.

A NEW SYSTEM OF

SCHOOL GARDENING

While in theory school gardening
has attracted considerable attention, in
practice it has been a failure. The
plot of ground worked in common at
the school house during the Spring
term was usually left to the mercy cf
the weeds when school closed.

With a view toward practical
gardening, Mr. McGilvrey and the
training school worked out a plan this
season which is well worth explanation.
The pupils of all grades were induced
to reserve a plot of ground from the
garden at home as their private
property. The hotbeds made by the
seventh and eighth grades last spring
furnished plants for the "home garden"
as soon as the weather permitted
them to be transplanted. An exhibit
of products in the fall for prizes was
planned to hold the interest of the
children thru the summer. Notwith-
standing the hot and dry weather
which made gardening difficult, the
results as shown by the exhibit were
unusually good and far beyond the ex-
pectation of those interested in the
plan.

A list of products exhibited will
show the scope of the work the pupils
did. The following products were seen
on the exhibition tables: Cabbage, to-
matoes, pumpkin, squash, b«ets, rad-
ishes, leek, egg plant, peppers, c«lery,
potatoes, sweet corn, pop corn, and

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salsify.

Those who exhibited with the prizes
won are given below.
First Grade

Louise McGilvrey. first; Ruby
DeCamp. first.
Second Grade

Clifford Avery, first.
Third Grade

Kennith Rodgers, second; Helen

Erickson, first; Thomas Martin,

second; Irene Bassett, first; Virginia

Greer, second; Lewis Pendell, secoud.

Fourth Crade

Robert McGilvrey, first; Esther
Creenup, first and second; Elinor
Morley, first; Mary Oakman, first;
Cora Allen, first; Henry Hermetet
second: Arthur Rogers second.
Fifth Grade

Carl Ausbury, first and second;

Willard \very, first; Wilbur Greer,

first; Francis Russel, first; Helen

DeCamp, first; George Clay, second.

Sixth Grade

Marie Barton, first; Margaret
Ulm, first; Louis Grier, first; Corinne
Bolles, second.
Seventh Grade

Floyd Ellis, first and second;
Allan Cheeseman, first and second;
Myrle Oakman, first; Vivian Brooking,
first; Harold Ausbury, first and second;
Harry Avery, second.
Eighth Grade.

Hazel Hahn, first and second;
Mildred Stevens, first; Alfred Gamage,
first; Leah Clay, first; William Work
first.

In addition to the above exibitors
several children brought fruit and flow-
ers. They were awarded second prizes.
Thev are given below: Harry Jones,
Lavinia Scott .Alfred Gamage, Vivian
Brooking, Hazel Avery, Beatrice
Simmers, Haskett Johnson, Margaret
Ulm.

The janitors were busy last week
arranging seats in the Emersonian
Society Hall. The room will be occup-
ied by the ninth grade students as
soon as the seating is completed.

Ross Nichol, Ml Academic, is
now teaching at Perry, 111. While he

likes the teaching profession even
better than he had hoped, he expresses
a desire to see the W.I. S.N. S. foot-
ball team in action.

CHANGES IN THE FACULTY

The list of members of the faculty
shows a change from that of last year.
The vacancies made by the resigna-
tion of Miss Campbell, Miss Durr, and
Miss Jackson have been filled, and
there have been some additions to the
teaching force.

Mr. Albert L. Walrath comes to us
as director of athletics and assistant
in the department of history. Mr. Wal-
rath is a graduate of Hillsdale College,
and has spent several summers and
one full year at the University of
Chicago, where he did special work in
Political Science, History, aud
Economics. He took an active interest
in literary and debating work at Hills-
dale, was editor of the college paper
for three years, and represented Mich-
igan in an interstate oratorical contest.
His teaching experience has been in
the Hillsdale, Mich., High School,
where he was first teacher and later
principal. He has made a most favor-
able impression in the opening work
here.

Miss May H. Prentice comes as su-
pervisor of grades one to four and
critic teacher in the fourth grade. Her
experience has been unusually broad: in
a country school in Ohio, in the
graded schools of Elgin, as a teacher
in the graded schools of Cleveland,
Ohio, and later as assistant principal
of one of the city schools. In tht
Cleveland Normal school she has
been a training teacher and an in-
structor in the department of edu-
cation. In this school she was asso-
ciated in her work with Mr. McGilvrey
The first weeks have shown us that we
are fortunate indeed to have her with
us.

Miss Bessie Cooper has been se-
lected as critic for the second and third
grades. Miss Cooper graduated from a
3 year course in the Northern Illinois
State Normal, and has done summer
work at Augustana College, Illinois
S/ate Normal University, and the
Western Illinois Normal. She has had

much experience in lower grade work
and during last year was an assistant
critic teacher in the Northern Illinois
Normal. She has an excellent record
and we feel that our school will profit
from her work here.

Miss Nelle M. Wilson takes the
place left vacant by the resignation of
Miss Jackson. Miss Wilson is a
graduate of the Library School of the
University of Illinois, and has been
librarian in Monticello Seminary since
graduation.

Two of our own graduates, of the
Class of 1911, have been chosen as
assistants, Miss Martha McLean in
the department of Domestic Science,
and Mr Ralph Bishop in the depart-
ment of Manual Training.

With these new teachers working
with the old corps of teachers
and the largest student body we have
yet had, we should make this, the tenth
year of our school, the best in its
history

A RECEPTION

A reception v/as held for new stu-
dents last Friday night in the gymna-
sium under the direction of the Y. M.
C. A. and Y. W. C. A. There was a
large part of the student body present
and most all of the faculty members
were among those enjoying them-
selves to the fullest extent.

The first half hour was spent in
getting acquainted and in finding Mr.
and Mrs. Jones who proved to be no
less personages than Mr. Drake and
Miss Grote. After these informalities
the president of the Y.M.C.A. called
the group to crder. He made a few
opening remarks calling on Mr. Hursh
for a few minutes talk. Miss McDow-
ell, the Y.W C.A president made a few
very appropiate remarks. Miss Mary
Vose favored the audience with a
violin selection and Miss Dunsworth
with a piano selection. Miss Hamilton
told one of her very delightful stories
and Mr. and Mrs. Jones before men-
tioned responded to the call of the
president.

Light refreshments were served by
the two associations jointly. The lights
"blinked" at ten o'clock thus ending a
very delightful evening.

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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

REPORT FOR THE YEAR K;lO-i i

The association began the year of
1910-191 1 with a deficit of $5.86,
and, as it was necessary to buy a con-
siderable amount of new materials to
begin the football season, a loan cf
$75.00 was secured at one of the lo-
cal banks. In this way material was
bought for cost, and enough saved to
more than pay the interest on the
lean.

The past year has been successful
from many points of view. The various
teams have given an unusually good
account of themselves, and have re-
flected honor and credit upon the
school. The school may justly be proud
of the persons who have represented
it on its various teams. There was not
a single case of an individual coming
to school in order to compete, but
competition was an honor to be
secured only by good work in class-
room as well as in the particular sport.

From a financial standpoint the
year has been very satisfactory-
Starting with a deficit, we ended with
a handsome surplus, after paying for
an expensive schedule of games, a
considerable quantity of much needed
equipment, prizes for Neighborhood
Day, and the printing and advertising
for the same. At the same time the
cost to the individual student has been
abnormally low. The term fee of fifty
cents, with its free ticket to all games,
enables the members of the associa-
tion to see the foot ball games for an
average cost of eight cents apiece, the
basket ball games for about five cents
apiece, and the baseball games for
less than ten cents apiece with three
important track meets thrown in for
good measure. Besides this free use
of association material was had, in-
cluding tennis courts and nets. Prob-
ably no other athletic association in
the whole country can show such a
reord. We were able to do this
only because so large a percentage of
the student body were members of the
association. We can do better this
year. If every student in school be-
longed to the association, it would be
possible to supply free tennis balls,

free golf clubs, keep courts and links
in perfect condition, and furnish equip-
ment for forty persons in each of the
major sports, and that without raising
the present ridiculously low member-
ship fee. It is only a pro^f of what many
people can do by cooperation and an
intelligent poolirg of their interests.

Below is given a summary of the
financial operations for the past year.

R ECJE ll'TS

From membership fees

and teim tickets
From gate receipts
For material bought fi >r

members of assoi iati< m

From loan

From Forfeit- Lombaid College

Expenditures
For Printing- to < Courier
For Advertising
For Material

$294.50

5477-35

$895.51

$29.36
$126.63

For Prizes Neighborhood Field Day - |6. 15

For Field Day

For Games

For Doctor's Bills

For Incidental Expenses

To Pay Loans, Interest, and

Deficit from preceding year
Balance July 1, 191 1

$65.46

$427.18
517-50
$11.16

£81.91

$47-5!

$895.51

O.M.Dickerson

Sec-Tres.

AN ELECTION

The Athletic Association held an
election Tuesday of last week and
chose Wayne Wetzel president for
the coming year, Lloyd Gard, vice-
president, Mr. Ginnings sec.-treas.
The people having membership
tickets for sale report considerable
business. The students are learning
that a ticket which can be secured for
fifty cents per quarter is a profitable
investment. All athletic contests that
take place during the quarter for which
the tickets are issued are free to those
who hold them.

ORATORY

Already posters have made their
appearance in the halls advertising
the oratorical contest. There are sev-
eral strong orators in school and many
others who have a desire to become
proficient in that line. In view of the

fact that II

• ■
tive here this year
should begin work at once and
secure us against d ■'
territory.

SENIOR CLASS ORGANIZ

The class of 1912 met the first
week school was in session and elect-
ed officers for the coming year. Ralph
Switzer was chosen president, Alfred
Sorensen, vice president, Gertrude
Kessel, secretary and George Rausch
tieasurer. Eva Finlay and George
Rausch were elected as member
the Athletic Board of Control and
Paul Leach as a member of the
Courier Board. It was also agreed
that the class should meet each
Monday at the close of the day and
transact the business that will naturally
present itself from week to week.

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CONGRESS

KEWANEE vs NORMAL

The

First Football Game Is Lost
by a Score of I 8 to

The opening game
of the football season
resulted in our defeat
at the hands of the Ke-
wanee team by the
score 18 to 0. The
game was a much
'"YsImV harder fought contest
than the score would indicate.

Kewanee kicked to Normal and
with the ball in their hands, our boys
pushed steadily toward the goal. Nor-
mal fumbled the ball and Kewanee
gained possession of it, but had a hard
battle to advance it. Macomb regained
the ball but could not hold it. Scoring
did not begin until Normal tried a for-
ward pass which a visitor intercepted
thus making a touchdown.

In the second quarter hard playing
was resumed but again the visitors
scored and the first half ended with
the score against us 12 to 0.

Some changes in the line-up were
made in the last half. This part of the
contest was a harder fight than
the first half and the visitors
were quite often tackled behind their
line. It was not until late in the fourth
quarter that another touchdown was
made by Kewanee.

The boys did well and not a loyal
Normalite would criticize them for
losing. Everyone should give them the
support that they deserve. Financially
however the game was not a success
but no doubt the damp weather was
the cause.

The line up follows:

Kewanee

Normal

Brooks .Nance

Foster

Anson

Wetzel

Lay

Garrison, Wyne

Lilley

Gill

Sullivan

bimonson

Spears, cap't

Leach, Huey

Hill

Stephens

Wilson, Nell

Standard

Carrol

Wilson

Pitsh

Stickle

Boyd

Erwin

Referee

Dickerson

Umpire

Campbell

Field judge

Sorensen

SEQUEL WORK

The committee selected by the sen-
ior class to havecharge of the publishing
of the year book known as the Sequel
has begun active work and will make a
strong effort to get material ready for
the printer and engraver before the time
so far passes that the work would be
be done in a rush. Representa-
tives from the various classes will soon
be appointed to prepare the material
for each class. It is the wish of the
class to make the year book a very
high grade production both in appear-
ance and content.

ATTENDED EDUCATIONAL
MEETING

Mr. McGilvrey, Mr.Hursh, and Mr.
Johnson who attended the Illinois
Schoolmasters' Club Meeting at
Peoria last Friday and Saturday, re-
port an excellent meeting. The subject
for discussion on Saturday was Edu-
cation and Legislature in Illinois with
special attention to the three bills be-
fore the last legislature providing for
free high school privileges, certifica-
tion of teachers, and a State Board of
Education. It would be interesting to
know how many of our readers even
know that such bills were under con-
sideration. It would seem that all the
teachers would take an active interest
in this prospective legislation since it
directly concerns them and their
work. Do they? Do you?

Mr. Johnson gave an illustrated
lecture at the Gem Theater last week
which was of especial benefit to farm-
ers and students of agriculture.

ART EXHIBIT COMING

Reprints From Great Masterpieces
of Art to Be Here Soon

The week of the 23d there will be
an art exhibit in the music r om and
Platonian hall. Many are in doubt
as to the meaning of "Art Exhibit."
Companies that sell reprints fro*n
famous pictures rent a l?rge number
of their prints to schools and libra-
ries to be exhibited before the pub-
lic. They are highly educative, be-
cause they put before us reproduc-
tions of paintings that hang in for-
eign galleries. Then, if art has a
place in education, this is a very de-
sirable way to teach it.

In many cases an admission fee is
charged to defray the expense of con-
ducting the exhibit, but the school
will take that responsibility, thus
making it free to all. The school will
probably purchase several pictures
and use them in making some of our
bare walls more attractive.

The exhibit is composed of one
hundred ei?hty-seven prints taken
from masterpiece? of art from the
Egyptian period to the present time.
These reprints are made by a new
and improved process and it is
learned that some of these almost
equal the original in size, while the
reproduction of color is very pleas-
ing.

Miss Buckner is very enthusiastic
over the outcome of the exhibit and
will be glad to furnish information to
any who wish it.

The Courier will take a vote to
determine the favorite picture in the
group; then, perhaps, the school will
take this favorite picture into consid-
eration when the time comes to se-
lect the ones that are to become our
permanent property.

Alumni

Don't forget the Alumni Ban-
quet Friday evening, Oct. 20th, at
Peoria. Time and hotel will be
announced from the platform
Friday morning.

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|EDITORIALj

For every seed time there is a har-
vest and we gather as we sow. As
we give we receive, and whatever
we put into a thing that same falls
to our lot again. This is no excep-
tion when applied to literary work.
There was a time when the work of
the two upper literary societies was
above complaint and adverse criti-
cism. Has the same been true for
the past year or so 9 Is the tinge of
pride that we used to feel for the
two societies any longer such?

Isn't there a difference between
real literary worth and commonplace,
feeble attempts at such? Of course
there are those faithful few who have
steadfastly stood and worked with
hope and courage, to promote what
they feel and know is a valuable as-
set of the school. We hope and have
half faith to believe that their la-
bors will not be in vain.

Can we afford to let an equipment
for literary work, such as ours, re-
main unused save for occasional,
commonplace work 9 Would the Y.
M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. appreciate
such homes as this? Could the Man-
ual Arts Department use such space?
This question might be asked with
regards to many other interests also.
Think it over.

The use of the Emersonian Hall as
study room makes it necessary for
both societies to hold their meet-
ings in the Platonian Hall. Con-
trary to the general view the Courier
looks upon this joint occupation of
the Platonian quarters as a forward
step in the interest of society work.

Some Emersonians contend that
the trustees had no right to use their
hall. Surely the state property can
be used as those in power see fit to
use it. No teacher would lay claim
to his classroom simply because he

had occupied it for a considerable
length of time.

Since this state of a "fairs h s
arisen, the Platonians should share
their conveniences as freely as a
friend would share his house with a
person in need of shelter. Perhaps
even a stronger vipw should be ta''-
en. The fact thnt the Emersonian
hall has been taken gives that so' i-
ety a right to occupy the remaining
room in the building that is adapted
for society purposes.

If the two societies will "bury the
hatchet" and work together harmo-
niously, that hall could be made the
cosiest room any two literary socie-
ties could hope for. If both care to
spend their surplus money for j Ict-
ures, statuary, or other decorpti ns,
surely that room could be made the
boast of the who'e building.

If the remedy for these apparent
difficulties lies in being neighborly,
then let us be neighborly.

MUSIC APPRECIATION

The growth of music appreciation
throughout the school has been aided
by the compositions played by Miss
Dunsworth at the opening of the
chapel exercises. The plan of last
year, using the works of various com-
posers, served to make familiar
many names that are of great im-
portance in the world of music but
unfamiliar to those not acquainted
with musical literature.

This year the plan is to select va-
rious forms of music and show the
different methods employed by com-
posers in interpreting their own
ideas of the form.

The lullaby was chosen as the first
form because of its simplicity and
beauty, and we have heard selections
from Grieg, Brahms, Godard, Iljinski,
Heller, Schumann, Wagner, Lang
and Nevin.

The form for this week and next
i3 the song form. This form includes
songs without words, Lieder ohne
Worte, Chanson sans Parlos. The
melody is always clearly defined and
easily followed, and the harmony
seems to accompany the melody as in
a song.

Mendelssohn's "Songs Without
Words" are the best known compo-
sitions of this form, and there are
many others that are popular.

Mr. Bayliss had planned a course
in wood turning and with that end in
view two new lathes have been in-
stalled on trial.

THE WOMAN'S BUII J

The last legislature appropriated

$75,000 for the erection of a V
man's Building on this campus. It has
been found that that body appropriated
more money than could be raised by
taxes on the basis of the old assess-
ment.

It seems that the youth of the land
are always called on to bear the brunt
of the taxpayer's "closeness". The
Governor called the heads of the sev-
eral state educational institutions into
a conference where it was agreed that
the improvements involving the ex-
penditure of the extra appropriations
be postponed until the taxes are
collected on the new assessment basis.
This will mean that the new dormitory
will not be built for at least one year.
The people who are anxious for the
development of this normal school will
have to content themselves with the
fact that anticipation is always two
jumps ahead of realization.

EMERSONIAN OFFICERS

President
Vice president
Secretary
Treasurer
Sergeant

Ed. Norton

Ceo. Rausch

Lela Terrill

Homer Venters

George Salisbury

PLATONIAN OFFICERS

President Ralph Switzer

Vice president Lloyd Smith

Secretary Evelyn Wyne

Asst. Secretary Mary Vanderburg

Treasurer Emma Callihan

Sergeant Virgil Catlin

Chorister Grace Cordell

Board of Trustees;

Ben West

Alice Robertson

Guy Hoyt

We are glad to note that the
Normal School will take steps to assist
in the consolidation work near Reynolds
111. The faculty considers this type
of work as the best way to get directly
at the root of the country school evils

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IS TEACHING IN THE WEST

The following is a portion of a letter
from Agnes Crawford of last year's
class who is teaching in Salt
Lake City. "There are over seven
hundred teachers and twenty six
buildings in the city and we need half
as many more, as every school is
crowded to the limit. At the Webster,
where 1 teach, there are almost nine
hundred children and twenty six
teachers, They just have seven grades
in that building. There are two hun-
dred children in the 1st B and four of
us to teach them. We have double
session work in the first four grades, so
that makes it pretty hard on the teach-
ers. We have to teach all of the spe-
cial subjects, as music, art, manual
training, etc. Each special subject
has a supervisor for the entire city.
I am taking music and art on Satur-
day, so I am kept qnite busy."

However, Miss Crawford says she
enjoys her work and thinks Salt Lake
is the best place ever.

Mr. Johnson went to Springfield
last Tuesday to attend the session of
the Illinois State Bankers Association.
James Hill and Dean Davenport of
the University of Illinois will talk on the
subject of Agriculture. Mr. Johnson
went to get pointers on the relation of
Agriculture to Banking.

The eleventh edition of the Encyclo-
paedia Britannica can now be found
in the library. It is bound in thirty vol-
umes and is printed on an excellent
quality of India paper. Each volume
contains nearly one thousand pages
yet each one is but very little over an
inch in thickness.

As to the contents of the work, one
could hardly do it justice in a short
space. The articles have been en-
larged in some cases and reduced in
others. However it is a ready helper
for any information to be found in a
work of its kind.

Found — In one of the basement
rooms one cake plate. Does this have
any connection with the following no-
tice appearing on the board in the

Geography room: "Please return the
plate" ?

NOTICE
The Courier offers one year's
subscription to the student sub-
mitting the best article in
answer to the question, "Where
Should the New Woman's
Building Be Located?" Mr.
Hursh, Mr. McGilvrey, and
Miss Grote will be judges.

SALLEE GETS BUSY

Roy M. Sallee, of the class of 1911
who is principal of the schools at
Reynolds, is planning a campaign for
the consolidation of the schools of the
township and hopes to receive help
from members of the Normal School
faculty in presenting to the patr;ns
the benefits of consolidation. He also
reports a meeting of the patrons of
his district which promises hearty
cooperation between all concerned in
the success of the school. This is
in line with what we expected from
him imbued, as he was with the spirit
of "better than well enough."

Notice

The Bayliss Memorial Exercises
are postponed until Oct. 27.

Full announcements next week.

OUR EXCHANGES

The College Eye published by the
students of the Iowa State Teacher's
College was the first exchjngetc ar-
rive. It is well edited and very ntatly
printed and deserves favorable com-
ment. We notice it goes many school
papers "one better" and uses the
simplified spelling.

The "Peehaps" from Dallas City
High School also presented its appear-
ance in its usual compact but vigorous
style.

Another paper, "The Rapid Soo"
comes to us from the Sioux Rapids,
Iowa, High School.

These exchanges can be found in
the northeast corner of the reading
room in the Library.

STATE EXAMINATION

Of those who took the examination
for a state certificate last June
at the Summer School, the following
from McDonough County were success-
ful: Agnes Grawford, Florence
C. McGaughey, Eva A. McMillan,
Lois K. Cordell, Florence Imes, and
Garnet Payne. These teachers took
some review work at the Summer
School and this of course made the
examination rather easy

Thii is a step that all of our
Normal School Graduates should take.
It will give them prestige among the
school board's members and educators
as well. If the majority of the body
of teachers in this state held state
cettificates surely the standard of
teaching would be rapidly advanced.

Frank L Crone, assistant superin-
tendent of education in the Philippines,
said in a recent letter to Mr.
McGilvrey, "Pendarvis is now super-
vising teacher and I felt he was going
to make good from the start." This
comes as no surprise to those who
knew Pendarvis, because they ex-
pected such news at any time.

We are glad to announce the or-
ganization ot the Nevin quartet. Miss
Helen Dallam, first violin; Miss
Dorthy Stinson, second violin; Miss
Susan B. Davis, alto; Miss Maud
Shamel, piano, comprise the new
organization. An appearance is ex-
pected soon.

Supt. Jones of Kewanee reports that
Louise Hainline of the class of Ml is
giving the best of satisfaction as sup-
ervisor of reading in that city. It is
certainly gratifying to both her friends
and the school's friends to learn that
one with so little experience in actual
teaching is able to direct the work of
older and more experienced teachers
with such tact and good judgment as
to win their hearty support and coop-
eration.

Virgil Catlin has disappeared. It
is rumored that he has gone home to
oil the wind mill.

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TRUE OR NOT TRUE

Many people, not familiar with the
conditions that are thrown about
students, regard exercise that goes be-
yond the necessary bodily activities as
useless, even detrimental. Some
even say that the farmer boy who
attends school in the winter has ac-
cumulated enough energy to supply
him throughout the school term.
The truth is, the working boy enters
school with a large muscle but soon
loses this physical strength thru inac-
tivity.

Well developed minds in ill develop-
ed bodies are a sad compliment to
any school. A large percentage of
the boys in this school are now facing
the problem altho they do not realize
it. To obtain the best results for the
amount of study given to school sub-
jects, one should indulge in at least
one hour per day of vigorous physical
exercise. Since the efficiency of a
man depends largely on his physical
strength nothing should be done during
school life that will impair this
strength.

Games and teams are the means to
the end cf general student exercise.
If a team exists for the extreme de-
velopment of a few, thus indirectly dis-
couraging wholesome exercise for the
many, then that team should be dis-
organized. What does it matter if we
win every game this year when five
years have passed? What will result
in five years if we allow the many to
go down hill physically?

We have a gymnasium but it is
closed some of the time. It should be
in use all of the time. If there is no
demand for it, why not start a new
game or two and in that way make a
demand. The Courier will be glad to
receive contributions either in affirm"
ation or contradiction of the above
opinions. Let's start something; stu-
dents, and faculty.

The Courier solicits an article in
explanation of that much talked of
game called "Hand Ball". There are
rumors afloat that the game will be
introduced to the boys of the school in
the near future.

MORE ABOUT

THE DORMITORY

The location of the dormitory as yet
is not agreed upon. A few seem to
think the lots now occupied by the
brick building on the south would
make a suitable place. There are a
greater number, however, that object
to such a proposition and the Courier
wishes to be listed among this class
of objectors.

About the only argument for the
Adams and West Street location that
has come to our ears has been the
fact that sewage and water connec-
tions could be more easily arranged.

The arguments against this location
and in favor of a site east of the main
building are put forth by the faculty
members and by the students who
have seriously considered the matter.
The Adams street site would provide
no lawn whatever. The building's size
would necessitate its being built
near the walk. This location would
give it the appearance of an office or
business building and not that of a
school home. \ dormitory surround-
ed by lots of trees, shade, slopes, and
flower beds is the ideal place for a
girls' home. A building surrounded
by streets, pavements, and noisy wag-
ons is quite the opposite. A location
having the former qualifications is
possible east of the building but not on
the lots to the south. The question is
this: Is it reasonable to allow such a
small item as sewage connections to
decide the location of a building that
is to be used for all time, especially
when the practical use of the
site should overshadow any minor
difficulty?

Mr Johnson has prepared an article
on "Extension work in Agriculture"
which will appear in the November
issue of the Illinois Agriculturist pub-
lished by the College of Agriculture at
Urbana.

The concrete roller made last year
by the students of the Summer
School will be ready for use as soon
as the lawn needs rolling.

The Juniors have elected Howard
Thompson president, Florence Logan
vice president, and Ralph Imes
secretary-treasurer. There are forty
four members and they seem to be a
very energetic bunch.

The Illinois weather map for Sep-
tember shows that McDonough county
was the region of heaviest rainfall dur-
ing the last month, there being be-
tween 16 and 20 inches of precipita-
tion. Some other parts of the state
had less than four inches.

The Kappa Phi Gamma girls served
tea to the girls of the Junior and Sen-
ior classes and the ladies of the Fac-
ulty, last Friday afternoon from 4:00
to 5:00, in the Music Room. Music
was furnished by Edith Dallam and
Evelyn Wyne, and the Victor was in
evidence.

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NORMAL vs MONMOUTH

Coa< h Walrath Expresses Hi

Views Regarding Last

Saturday's Game

When the the editor comes around
to the coach for a resume of the
game after a harsh defeat, one may
suspect that it is a case of "rubbing it
in". However I have something to
say relative to this Monmouth foot-
ball game and welcome this opportun-
ity to say it. The two examples of
western Illinois high school football
teams we have seen this season,
have exhibited a spirit of sports-
manship quite in accord with that of
the Illinois colleges as described and
analyzed in the leading article of the
last number of the School Review.
The writer of that article nicely sums
up what values athletics might have
for the colleges. There was no doubt
as to the superiority of Monmouth's
football team, nor any more doubt as
to my satisfaction at belonging to the
visiting rather than the visited team.
What surprised me most was the evi-
dent lack of surprise on the part of
our boys at the lack of hospitality
shown us. We were only an enemy
in an enemy's camp. No faculty
member seemed interested in good
sport; no authority cared to interrupt
the flow of foul language issuing from
Monmouth's brutal tackle after he was
finally put out of the game; no police
or interested person felt inclined to in
sist upon a cleared field; it was Mon-
mouth College men, if it was not a
member of our own patty, who direct-
ed us to the athletic grounds; college
men gave us a lounging room before
the game and showed us such con-
veniences as a few chairs and a
couple of shower baths. A good na-
tured druggist pointed out the way to
a suitable restaurant. Thanks to our
very business like manager, several
(Continued on page 39)

THE FLOWER SHOW

The Auditorium Stage a
Mass of Flowers

The Auditorium stage was decorated
with an abundance of flowers last
Wednesday morning. There was
considerable discussion among the
students concerning this display, so
Mr. McGilvrey took time to make an
explanation.

Last year's seventh grade did
hard work in the school gardens but
gave their efforts entirely to flower cul-
ture. It was planned to have this
display at the Memorial exercises,
October 27, but it was feared that the
weather would not be favorable and
the flowers would be gone by that
time. The idea is to get the pupils
interested in flowers and flower cul-
ture, there being definite educational
advantages in such work.

The outcome was very pleasing and
proved the plan to be feasible. No
doubt the pupils who raised the flowers
have gained much in the knowl-
edge of flowers and have also gained
culture. George Rausch took some
very good photographs of the exhibit
and a group picture of the people who
raised the flowers.

EDUCATIONAL MEETING

The Military Tract Teachers' Asso-
ciation will meet at Peoria Friday and
Saturday. This organization was
formed to promote the general welfare
of teachers and to better the existing
school conditions in this territory. The
watchword of the meeting this year is,
"Education for Efficiency". Many not-
able speakers will be present and it is
expected that two thousand teachers
will be in attendance. The members
of our faculty will attend, so school
will be dismiseed Thursday evening.
An extended account of the meeting
will appear in next week's issue.

EXTENSION WORK

Extension Work in Agriculture.

Other Classes Conducted

in Quincy

In order that the Normal School
may become more effective in its
usefulness, several lines of exten-
sion work have been offered. This
work is proving to be popular with
persons who are unable to avail them-
selves of the work offered in the regu-
lar sessions in the school. Recently a
new line has been developed which
goes one step beyond the teachers wh^
labor necessarily during the months of
the school year.

The object of the plan is to assist
the teachers in the subject of Agricul-
ture while their schools are in session.
In this plan the County Superintendent
is the field agent of instruction, and
he cooperates with the teachers locat-
ed in the village and country schools
who are especially interested in the
subject of Agriculture. Heretofore
the County Superintendent has found
difficulty in getting proper material to
aid the teacher who would be willing
to undertake some work in scientific
agriculture if she were encouraged
and wisely directed. To meet both of
these situations, the Normal School
has made a series of lantern slides
which illustrates the methods of con-
ducting its own experiment field.
These slides show the yields of the
various crops at the time of harvest
expressed not only in growing crops,
but acre values as well. The slides
are loaned to the County Superintend-
ent who uses them as the basis of in-
struction before teachers in his county
at the local meetings during the
school year. One county will have
forty of these meetings this year. By
this means the Superintendent and
his teachers cooperate advantageous-
ly, because suitable instruction is giv-
(Continued on page 40)

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We will wager that there are those
who are taking no particular notice of
the colorings of the trees in the ravine,
and that some gaze across the hills to
the north and yet fail to see the au-
tumn tints that are forming there. We
cannot see how any one can stand at
the windows of this building, and let
his eyes blindly travel over the low-
lands to the north with autumn colored
hills beyond, without drinKing it in,
without coming into closer touch with
the "Great God of the Out-of-Doors"

Aren't we going to have a Boys'
Glee Club this year? If our boys have
anything to do with the "moonlight
serenading" we have been hearing
"oft in the stilly night" of late, we
judge there is plenty material for a
glee club.

Hedding College is anticipating the
football game they are to have with
our team, so the "travelers" inform us.
The College won over us last year and
are quite proud of the fact. We hope
the next issue may reverse the score
to such an extent that it will be better
for them to "forget it".

A little boost now and then is rel-
ished even by the Courier and the
football team.

If we can't boost for the team let's
keep quiet and not expose our igno-
rance by "knocking" on it.

All aboard for Peoria tomorrow.

The Wkstkkn Courif.k

HAVE YOU?

If the Courier isn't exactly what
suits you, have you contributed your
share towards making it better? Have
you talked it among your friends?
Have you spoken encouragement to
the editor? Have you contributed to
its columns, and, moreover, have you
subscribed?

(Dedicated to an empty copy hook)
When the copy hook hangs empty,
And the copy comes in slow,
It makes the Courier pressman
To the editor quickly go.

Then the editor grabs his pencil,
Begins to write far, far from slow,
And he writes an editorial,
On "Why Are Conditions So?"

T.B.

THE ENROLLMENT

With a new school, growth must
necessarily be slow. When we re-
member that ours is the youngest of
the normal schools of Illinois, a com-
parison of previous enrollments is not
unfavorable to us.

We are now entering upon the tenth
year since the establishment of the
school, the sixth since the actual com-
pletion of the building. That we are
making rapid growth is shown con-
clusively by the table below, which is
a comparison of the enrollment for the
fall quarter of 1910—11 with that of
the fall quarter of 1911 — 12, If we
take into consideration the fact that
the increase last year over the pre-
ceding year was only a little more
than five per cent, we shall see what
the school is doing, and what we may
expect in the near future.

Students in daily attendance.

First quarter 1910-1 1 319

First quarter 191 1-12 385

Percent of gain 21

Students by correspondence.

1910-11 16

1911-12 28

Students in extension classes 61

Total enrollment.

First quarter 1910-1 1 335

First quarter 1911-12 474

Percent of gain in total

enrollment 4l£

HOW DID YOU DIE?

(Printed for the benefit of the football boys.)

Did you tackle that trouble that came
your way
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hide your face from the light of day
With a craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an
ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it,
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt
that counts,
But cnly < < c ; i lake

You are beaten to e?:th? We!!, well,
what's that?
Come up with a smiling face.
It's nothing against you to fall down
flat,
But to lie there — that's disgrace.
The harder you're thrown, why the
higher you bounce;
Be proud of your blackened eye!
It isn't the fact that you're licked that
counts,
It's how did you fight — and why?

And though you be done to the death,
what then?
If you battled the best you could,
If you played your part in the world of
men,
Why, the Critic will call it good.
Death comes with a crawl, or comes
with a ponce,
And whether he's slow or spry.
It isn't the fact that you're dead that
counts,
But only how did you die?

GERMAN CLUB

A German Club was organized last
week by the people in school or con-
nected with it who have had at least
one year's work in German. The meet-
ing elected officers and adopted a
constitution. After the business session
a short program was given. It is ex-
pected that the Club will consist of
fifty members in a short time. Regu-
lar meetings will be held once in two
weeks.

Several Seniors will attend the
meeting at Peoria tomorrow. It will
add quite materially to their future
standing as teachers if they become
connected with this association.

The Western Courier

(Continued from page 37)

friends accompanying the team, and
the ingenuity of our own men we fared
fairly well and no one of our number
seems to have expected anything bet-
ter. To one unfamiliar with the ways
of Illinois high schools, perhaps a
little partial to the Southern Michigan
spirit, this condition seems quite un-
fortunate. This was no friendly spirit
of rivalry nor should young men be
taught that such is sport. Defeat did
no harm. Was anyone benefited by
this game?

Let us take first action. Let the
Normal win wherever she can, and tell
her opponents her frank intentions.
But we have no place for that kind of
sport which degrades the men and the
school. 1 venture to suggest to the Y.
M. C. A. that it enlist the services of
its social committee, the music
department, the domestic science
department and the athletic associa-
tion for the extending of some social
courtesies to visiting teams repre-
senting neighboring schools. A club
room with a place to rest and a mag-
azine to read would be appreciated by
any visiting athlete.

The game at Monmouth was char-
acterized by a rapid succession of end
runs by the winning team. The color-
ed man, Williams, was particularly
apt at dodging the Normal's tacklers.
A drop kick by the high school started
rolling up a score which ended at
49—0' No mention of individual
playing is called for at this time. The
team lacked leadership at various
stages of the game. Our forward pass-
es, especially on Black's side of the
line, worked excellently for a time but
our opponents showed more stamina
and roughness and with a referee un-
willing to penalize frequently, the team
dissipated the energy with which they
started the game.

The lineup follows:

Monmouth Normal

McConnel re Watson

Bonner, Humbert- rt Wetzel
St.Clair, Haberman rg Wyne, Garrison

Hood c Watson

Frymire lg Simonson

Jones It Stickle

Williams le Black, Leach

McMichael, Hartcell gt Standard

Kinnon, Capt. rh Huey

Ranken lh Stevens

Runberg fh Wilson

The Platonian Society held its first
regular program last Thursday at four
o'clock. After a short program an
informal reception was given to all the
students, neat invitations having been
passed about at the Chapel hour.
Ice cream and wafers were served
to two or three hundred students.

NOTICE ALUMNI

Copies of this issue of the Courier
will be taken to the Educational
meeting in Peoria tomorrow and will
be distributed among the alumni at
the alumni banquet tomorrow night
To you alumni who receive this issue
the Courier bids you good cheer.
We hope you are enjoying your work
and think you will find more pleasure
in it, if you have your name on our
subscription list.

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Oct. 28. Augusta at Augusta

Nov. 3. Lombard College at Macomb
Nov. 10. St. Albans at Macomb

Nov. 18. Galesburg H. S. at Macomb
Nov. 25. Hedding College at Macomb
Nov. 29. Carthage at Carthage

Nov. 30. Lafayette H. S. at Macomb

George btremmel went to Momouth
with the team Saturday. He also had
a box of candy. The candy fell into
the hands of Mr Walrath and Mr.
Bishop and it hasn't been seen since.

Some practise and class games
coming, so the Courier hears.

TWO FORMER GRADUA1 ES

Two loyal Normal people, Lola
Foster of last year's class and Allen
Beall of the class of '10, were out to
see our boys play Monmouth last
Saturday. Miss Foster sat with a
crowd of noisy high school girls and,
some way or other, she did not seem
to join in their cheers for Monmouth.
She is teaching in Monmouth and
says she enjoys her work. Mr. Beall
is attending Monmouth College and
by the way he talked he does not like
the College as he does Normal. He
is intending to go to the university for
his degree next year.

And before we forget it, Mr. Beall
did as all loyal alumni should do —
he subscribed for the Courier.

Y. W. C. A. AND Y. M. C. A.

The Young Women's Christian
Association is taking active steps
toward the formation of three Mission
Study classes. They expect to take up
"Sunrise in the Sunrise Kingdom",
that being a study of the regeneration
of Japan.

The Young Men's Christian Associ-
ation has formed three Bible study
classes which will meet once a week
for recitation during the school year.
Mr. Mc Gilvrey spoke at the regular
meeting some time ago and in the
course of his talk brought out the
benefits cf a regular habit of Bible
study. The response to the call of the
president for class members was very
pleasing. Mr. Bishop will teach " The
Life of Christ", Mr. Walrath will teach
" The Life of Paul", and Mr. Bassett
will teach " The Will of God in Man's
Life". These classes should and no
doubt will be well attended. Those
who attend will receive a positive help
that the others will miss.

Quarterly No. 1 1 is fresh from the
press. It contains the principal's re-
port for 1910 — 11, courses, register
for 1910 — 11 and the announcement
of the 1912 Summer Term. The first
three pages contain pictures of the
Normal Building, the interior of the
Auditorium and the painting of the
Indian on Starved Rock. The publi-
cation is worth keeping on that
account alone.

4<>

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(Continued from page 37)
en at the best time. The same county
is planning to lay out two experiment
fields in connection with the school
work of the village schools next spring.

Principal McGilvrey goes to Quincy
to fill a regular weekly appointment
with the teachers in the public
schools of that city. This is a part
of a <lan of expansion arranged for
last spring, while Mr. McGilvrey was
at the head of the department of edu
cation of tbis school — a plan which
it is hoped will be mutually beneficial
to the teachers in this part of the
state and to our own school.

There are many teachers in various
towns and cities in this part of the
state, who feel the need of normal
training, but whc do not feel that
they can spare the time and means
for a two years' course in our State
Normal. To meet the needs of this
class, a course of study is being
planned which teachers can follow
while teaching and which will count
for a year's credit toward gradua-
tion. The first place to adopt the
new plan is Quincy, where more
than sixty of tbe teachers are organ-
ized into a "lass for this purpose.
They study t\e work as outlined for
the week, and on Friday, Mr. McGil-
vrey goes to that city, and after
school in the afternoon, meets with
the class and leviews and discusses
the week's wo r k. The school board
at Quincy ha? made arrangements by
which any toacher in their schools
who does the amount of study neces-
sary to secure the year's credit may
be granted a year's leave of absence
to come to Macomb snd complete the
Normal course.

It is expected that similar classes
will be organized in other towns as
the plan becomes perfected and
known. The success of the under-
taking at Quincy is marked. The
teachers are enthusiastic in their re-
sponse, and the work they are doing
is equal in quality of that of the stu-
dents in the regular class work at the
Normal.

This plan seems to meet a real
need of that lirge number of teach-
ers who, even if the schools could
grant them extended leave of ab-
sence for study, would finditimpossi-
sible to meet the expense it would
involve. Heretofore the Normal
School has concerned itself mainly
with the instruction of the students
in daily attendance. If the extension
class work fulfills the promise of its

beginning, thq t'm° may come when
most of thf thirtv-'i v<; hundred
teachers in the Military Tract are
either graduates of the Military Tra< I
Normal or mgularly enrolled mem-
bers of classes, working, slowly it
may be, but steadily, toward gradua-
tion. Such en-operation and organi-
zation would stimulate every teach-
er to more effective work and would
establish new standard" of efficiency
for the elementary schools of this
part of the mte. It is confidently
believed ti>nt ouperinten dents and
teachers will .loin hands with the
school in working out the plan
which promises so much for the ad-
vancement of education.

THE ORCHESTRA

The orchestra made its first public
appearance at Chapel Friday. A
popular program of waltzes and
twosteps was given. Last night it
furnished the music for the Emersoni-
an Fall Party held in the music room.
The orchestra has been invited to
play at the Presbyterian Brotherhood
meeting the first Monday in Novem-.
ber.

The productions of the orchestra
wi'l be of a higher class this year than
ever befcre, since several valuable ac-
quisitions have been made, one of
these being Mr. Walker Pollock as
first cornetist. The second violin
section being very strong, serves to
strengthen the whole group. The
personnel of the orchestra is given
below:

First violins— Eli Smith, Mary
Vose, Dorothy Stinson, Freda
Welborn.

Second violins-- Russell Rector,
Junior McElvain, Edward Mc-
Donough, George Peterson.

Cornets— Harlow Wyne, Walker
Pollock.

Piano— Isabel Brooking.
Baritone— George Jeffries.
Trombone-- Lloyd Smith.
Cello— Miss Davis
Clarinets— Charles Carey, George
Collins.

Drums -- Christie Darke, How-
ard Thompson.

There are fifty seven people in the
Country School Training Class.

We may expect some Hi
literary work from the ninth %'<
a short time now. They are g
used to the trend of affairs here 2nd
will, no doubt, do some work that
might well be patterned after.

!t is planned to have some specia
music at the chapel exercises every
Friday. Talent in the school and from
the city will be heard on those oc-
casions. This will make a chapel visit
very agreeable to those in the city
who wish to attend.

Mr. Johnson and Mr. Switzer
drilled wheat Monday on the experi-
mental farm.

"Deak" Browning says he is going
to attend the Alumni Banquet in
Peoria Friday. It will be well for the
management to reserve several plates.

How are the ninth graders and
their new study hall? We have almost
forgotten about them.

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ACT OF CONGRES!

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SENIORS GIVE A FROLIC

'The Faculty Spooks and Junior

Devils" Are Royally Treated

By the Senior Ghosts.

The seniors established their repu-
tation as entertainers last Monday
night at a Halloween party given to
the juniors and the faculty in the
gymnasium.

The guests, met at the east door
by a group of white robed spirits,
were conducted solemnly and silently
through the long, dim hallways, then
up and up broad stairways and down
again to the depths of earth though
a long winding stairway lighted only
occasionally by solitary jaek-o-lan-
terns. In the dungeon below a mot-
ley crowd had already gathered, la-
dies and gentlemen in court costume,
Spanish tambourine dancers and for-
tune tellers, ghosts and devils; not
the least, His Satanic Majesty him-
self, with here and there little girls
with their sunbonnets and dolls, and.
best of all the clowns, all masked,
and nearly all unknown.

The gymnasium was unusually
beautiful with its Halloween decora-
tions. The evening's entertainment
developed into a real old-fashioned
frolic, the masks adding much to the
freedom of the fun, and when these
were removed there were many sur-
prises. Sandwiches and apples,
pumpkin pie and cider were served,
and it was with real regret that the
party broke up at the warning blink
of the lights. All voted the seniors
royal hosts, and wish that they may
do it again.

The boy scouts of troop No. 2 have
received their suits, which are some-
thing similar to the suits of the boy
scouts of troop No. 1 . The following
boys are the scouts in troop No. 2:
Albert Pendell, Allen Cheeseman,
Floyd Ellis, Greer Hermetet, Oliver
Wisecup, Harry Jones, William Work
and Merle Peck.

"Ikey" Foster will be seen in the
Lombard College game Friday.

MEMORIAL EXERCISES

A Tribute Paid to the Life and
Work of Mr. Bayliss

Friday afternoon, October twenty-
seventh, in the Normal Auditorium,
the faculty and the students, with
th e ir friends, expressed in a beauti-
ful service a high tribute to the
memory of the life and good work of
Principal Alfred Bayliss in his ass -
ciation with teh school. The spirit
of the exercises was in perfect har-
mony with th e high ideals tor which
their former friend and teacher had
labored so patiently during his years
of service. Those chosen to speak
knew him both as a teach e r in the
profession and as a friend.

Dr. L. C. Lord, president of the
Eastern Illinois State Normal, told
of the circumstances of his first ac-
quaintance, and how through the
lending of books and the study of the
character of men, their acquaintance
developed into strong friendship. A
little further in his talk Dr. Lord
spoke of his unerring judgment in
matters requiring profound thought
and especially in his characterization
of men. In the latter he was supe-
rior to most men in his profession.

Supt. W. L. Steele, of the Gales-
burg city schools, spoke of his inti-
mate acquaintance with him and nar-
rated experiences which revealed a
strong mutual friendship. Probably
no other school man had the oppor-
tunity of such intimacy as was per-
mitted him when Mr. Bayliss called
upon him in his private office to visit
between trains.

Supt. S. J. Ferguson, of Rock Is-
land county, said he knew him first
as Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion. He told how helpful he was
in his relations to the county superin-
tendents. However, he kn e w him
best and learned to appreciate him
more as a friend in his work in the
Normal School.

Mr. Hursh knew him for a greater
period of time than any of the pre-
vious speakers. He told of the early
experiences of Mr. Bayliss' school
life, and how he rose from the ranks
of the common school teacher to the
head of the Normal School. In ev-

HOW WE SAW ETHEL

We (The Courier) Went to See

a Show — Other Normalites

Sat Up Near the Stars.

We have heard a lot about Ethel
Barrymore and we had decided that
should opportunity offer we would go
to see her act. That opportunity
offered itself the other night and altho
it cost an educational meeting, we
(The Courier) went. Well, the seats
were all sold, so they put about two
hundred of us up near Jupiter on little
boards acout six inches wide with per-
pendicular boards for back rests.
When we got located and were using
our overcoat for a cushion we looked
about for a suitable place for our feet
but found no other location than a
woman's shoulder just in front of us.

After a while the orchestra began to
bang so we stood up so that we could
look down to see it. There it was,
hammering away about seventyfive
feet below us. During the playing a
big asbestos curtain was pulled up, the
footlights flashed, and soon the play be-
gan. Of course we expected to see
Ethel come in on the run and tear
her hair and say something like this
"At last it is come, treacherous vil-
lain." But instead of her we saw an
old fellow getting boozed up way over
in India. Pretty soon she did
come in and the people made a noise
with their hands. She didn't seem to
mind it. I guess she is used to such
foolishness. We expected her to stab
the man right on the spot but she did
not. Finally she said something just
as calm as you please and her voice
was so clear, so gentle, so easy, so
appropriate that we forgot it was a
play.

So the play passed, scene after
scene, each one quite interesting and

(Continued on page 48)

ery undertaking he was successful,
and the last was his greatest success.

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Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
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EDITORIAL

There are three classes of people
in this world: those who lead, those
who follow, and those who hang back.
Those who lead are "cussed" by those
who hang back, and those who hang
back are cussed by the leaders. The
people who lead are the ones who
make conditions better for awhile,
but soon they get swelled up over
their power, and those who hang
back call the "followers" into line
and start off in another direction.
This group leads until they get the
big head, then those called the
"hangersback' whistle at the follow-
ers and start a procession all their
own. Just this thing happens In
school, in society, and in politics.
The hangbacks "cuss" the leaders be-
cause they can't be leaders, and the
followers, like dear little sheep,
stand still and listen to the still,
small voice. So it is that reform
moves so slowly. The large part of
the people, being followers, ar e in
controlling power, but since they are
followers, use that power to v e ry bad
ends sometimes. Why are conditions
so? Because people haven't been ed-
ucated to think for themselves

Are YOU going to the game?
Let's show Lombard defeat.

MOTTO- DON'T STUFF THE
BALLOT BOX.

The Courier took a vote iast week
to dete-mine the students' 1 hol< e ■ .1 a
picture. Some little fellow thought
it would be cute to stuff the ballot
bcx. This yottngeter, howe er, did
not show t lie cunning that becon e
; most politicians. He dn pped ballots
into the box all packed together and
all marked the same way. A near-
sighted person could have detected
the fraud right away. There was al-
so some other stuffing done, but by a
different person. This person had a
fine-pointed fountain pen. He tried
to disguise his hand-writing, but he
couldn't do it. Another youngster
thought it would be nice to have tht
school purchase the picture entitled
"Saved." Now that person trie 1 to
write the word "saved" in at least a
drzen different ways, but to any ne
it was easy to detect the writing.

This incident would need no men-
tion had it no significance in the life
of the school and the individual.
From this it is easy to see why money
can hire a man or company of men to
stuff the ballot box. Here it was done
just for fun. The spirit of playful-
ness is very desirable in children of
kindergarten age, but becomes very
tiresome in ninth grade infants.
Those who did the work should not
be worried over the affair, because
their choice will not be taken serious-
ly. Really, though, it was quite a
nice joke, and the Courier admires
the boys for their useful ingenuity.

"WHY ARE CONDITIONS SO?"

Our expert pressman wrote a little
poem the other day accusing the edi-
tor of writing an editorial on the
above question. Until that moment
we had never had that question im-
pressed upon our mind. Now
that it has been, we will just tell you
some of the difficulties our mind can-
not untangle.

Why is it that some people laugh
out loud, some grin, and others never
crack a smile when a speaker tells a
funny story? That phenomenon is
present and cannot be accounted for
unless one goes into the depths of
psychology.

Why is it that a boy will forego
the pleasure of athletics at a certain
age just to carry a girl's books home?
Soirie people say he "has it bad," but
those are the ve ry people who are
there themselves.

Why is it some members of the
faculty are so large and others so

small,? Why is Mr. Walratb so
small when lie ha . to handle the
whole football team, and why \t
While bo large when he Jusl
around with a hammer once in a
while? Why is it that Miss Or
so la r

when Miss U'il on has to carry
and boo] s from the tatjle to th<
room, and Miss Grote Just 'r
from the first to the third floor ev-
ery morning'.'

Why is it we all have to have colds
and cough our throats sore? Mr.
Hursh says it is all on account of
our stupidity.

Now last, but not least, why is it
some people won't subscribe for the
Courier, when it is the best pa:.er
published at the Western Normal
School?

RECEPTION TO THE CITY
TEACHERS

The faculty held a reception for
the superintendent of the Macomb
schools, Mr. Birney, and his corps of
teachers, last Thursday from 4
o'clock until 6. The teachers were
invited out to see the pictures in the
Art exhibit and were served tea in
the Domestic Science room.

This will no doubt be only the first
of a series of functions of this kind
between the normal and city teach-
ers. These affairs will establish a
fine relation of friendship between
the two school systems and from this
will result much good for all teach-
ers concerned.

The result of the students' choice
of a picture in the exhibit are not
very startling. The "Pot of Basil"
seemed to be the first choice. "Joan
of Arc" leceived quite a number of
votes. Many of the training school
votes wer e cast for "Derwentwa-
ter." Some preferred "Mona Lisa;"
others the Madonnas. The president
has power to purchase several pic-
tures, and we may expect to see them
adorning our walls soon.

Mr. Johnson gave a very instructive
talk befote the young men of the
school Tuesday at 6:45. This was
one of a series on the subject, "The
Ideal Man from the Physical Stand-
point." Other talks will follow from
week to week and the Young Men's
Christian Association invites the men
of the school to be present.

Root for the team to-morrow !

The Western Courier

TWO VICTORIES FOR THE
SECOND TEAM

The Augusta game served a pur-
i ose, which probably no other game
nt this time could have served. In
the face of many exasperating offi-
cial decisions and a truly hostile
crowd, the Normals obeyed the in-
junction to "saw wood and let the
other fellow do the talking," to a
ci editable extent. The two teams
were not matched. If they had been
evenly matched Augusta would have
won! As it was, our new men and
new plays had a good tryout against
a lineup which could give only suf-
ficient opposition to make the boys
I play ball. It was a lesson in self-
control and a very successful one.

The Normal's lineup included
Dobson, Sorensen and Smith, for
whom this game was the first one
this season, but these men will un-
doubtedly be used on the first squad
hereafter. Wilson, offensive half,
developed new signs of strength at
delensive center, and Wilson, togeth-
er with Dobson at loose defensive
quarter-back, will prove a difficult
combination for any team to mas-
ter. Sorenson is the right man in
the right place, and both Huey and
Erwin at quarter ran the team suc-
cessfully. In the line, Captain
Hoar was particularly noticeable for
aggressiveness and dash. Sor e nsen
entered the game during the second
half to try himself out at the posi-
tion of tackle, bu he claims never to
have found any opportunity to test
his ingenuity or muscle. Bennett is
still an unknown quantify at tackle.
In all, the second team showed
strength and is bound to acquit itself
well in any future scrimmage.

The resulting score, which stood
23 to 0, is not indicative of the su-
periority of the team th e Normal
sent to Augusta. The goal defended
by the Normal was but once in any
danger, and only continued and ex-
travagant penalties kept Hoar's
eleven from shoving the ball over
for a dozen touchdowns. That much
credit is due the boys and we hope
they have instilled some of that ag-
gressive spirit into the team which
meets Lombard Friday.

It should be said that the Augus-
ta team itself was most courteous
and friendly. It is to be regretted
that the crowd along the side lines
did not show the same kind of
spirit.

The lineup:

Center — Gill.

Guards — Croxton, Malcomson.

Tackles — Bennett, Watson, Si-

monsoh, Leach.

Ends — Hoar (Cant.), Thompson,
Smith.

Quarterback — Erwin, Huey.

Halfbacks — Wilson, Sorensen.

Fullback — Dobson.

Our second football team played a
game with the local High Schcol last
Thursday and won by a score of 18 to
0. The evening was very rainy but
the boys did not let the dampness in-
terfere with :port.

Quite a large cre>wd was in the top of
the grandstand where the rain could
not strike and from that position
cheered the the boys effectively.

SURELY WORTH READING

Among the noteworthy articles re-
cently appearing in the popular ma-
gazines, the following will no doubt
prove of interest to many:

Addams, Jane — New Conscience
and an Ancient Evil. McClure's Alag.
p. 3, Nov. '11.

Beard, Dan — Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca. Rev. of Rev. p. 429, Oct. '11.

Bourne, S. — College: An Under-
graduate View. Atlantic Monthly, p.
667, Nov. '11.

Cabot, M. — Place of Beauty in
American Life. Forum, p. 513, Nov.
'11.

Cromie — Investigating for Health.
Outlook, p. 479, Oct. 28, '11.

Dunn — Dr. Wiley and Pure Food.
World's Work, p. 29, Nov. Ml.

Hale, W. B. — Wo^drow Wilson; a
Biography. World's Work, p. 14940,
Nov. '11.

King, H. C. — Story of the Civil
War told by Photographs. Rev. of
Rev., p. 459, Oct. '11.

Will the Theft of the Mona Lisa
Help the Louvre? Rev. of Rev., p.
485, Oct. '11.

Wright, Hamilton — Transforming
the Gold Dredged Lands into Orange
Orchards. Pop. Mechanics, p. 723,
Nov. '11.

The November number of World's
Work will be found especially attrac-
tive to those interested in agricul-
ture.

Mr. Bassett took his country school
class to Colchester Saturday to exam-
ine the coal and clay mines there.
There were some exciting experiences
reported by several girls who went.
Some found the close qnarters of the
coal shaft quite uncomfortable but
nevertheless the trip was worth while.

ART EXHIBIT

During the past weeK Society Hall
has been turned into a verualne art
gallery. Through the courtesy of
A. W. Elson of Chicago, we have
been enabled to enjoy reproductions
of some of the world's most famous
pictures. The week has been one
of the happy incidents of our school
life and the enthusiasm and keen
euj yment of the students has been
most gratifying. The exhibit has
been a mental and spiritual uplift to
many. The pictures were so beau-
tiful and the collectic n so well chos-
en and we can truthfully say it was
the best exhibit we ever had.

The pictures were arranged on
the plan followed by the best muse-
ums. Th e pictures of each period of
art were hung together, beginning
with Egyptian art, leading through
classic Greek and Roman architect-
ure and sculpture, Gothic, early
Italian and High Renaissance paint-
ing, down through the ages of
Dutch and modern painting.

The collection was so varied and
examples from each great school of
painting so numerous, it would take
too much space to give e\ en a pass-
ing notice to all. However, the
American School was not by any
means least and some notable re-
productions of famous mural deco-
rations were shown, and paintings of
world-wide fame.

The Board of Trustees has gen-
erously offered to present the school
with several of the best and most
popular reproductions. The pictures
purchased are not to be placed per-
manently in any one room, but are
to be loaned from one room to an-
other; and the pictures at present in
the Art Room are to be included in
this "moving picture show."

We hope all this will tend to a
higher appreciation of sincere,
thoughtful study of the good and
true in art and a cultivation for the
inner life. "Build for yourselves
nests for beautiful thoughts, homes
for the soul to dwell in."

The benior committee responsible
for the publication of the Sequel are
busy with the initial steps necessary
to such an undertaking.

Miss Hamilton returned from Ke-
wanee Tuesday where she had been
doing educational work.

Every cheer counts to-morrow.

The Western Courie

HOW WE SAW ETHEL

(Continued from page 45)
some intensely dramatic. In all cas-
es Ethel Barrymore could speak a
word in a whisper almost and it could
be heard away up there in starland.
There were other good actors in the
play, too. Some were common men
just as you would see in a store or a
bank. One was a fussy old man who
was all mixed up in his philosophy of
life.

We v/ould have enjoyed the play
very much indeed had it not been for
a "cute" young lady with a number
two shoe having a toothpick toe who
persisted in circumscribing our shoul-
der blade just as the dramatic tension
was the highest. We didn't know
whether she was excited and couldn't
help it or whether she wanted to leave
the print of her shoe on our back just
to humiliate us when we saw our lady
friends. Anyhow, we are not going to
tell our readers the names of any other
Normalites who sat up there with us
in the seventh magnitude.

After it was all over we asked our-
selves why we would endure
such persecution just to hear some-
thing that wasn't real, something just
played. We haven't answered our
question yet but guess it was just be-
cause "it might have been."

NOT THE ONLY SAGE

Mr. Hursh was not the only sage
who decided whiskers were unsanitary.
Some believe, however, that the ques-
tion of health did not enter into that
gentleman's mind when he applied the
razor to his beard. It is reported that
he wanted his wife to see his chin.
The other sage who relieved himself of
a like burden will be learned from the
following clipping from the "Plattsville
(Wis.) Exponent".

"President Sutherland appears with-
out a mustache."

Mr. Sutherland's friends would like
to see him in that state.

Ed De Camp, our first floor janitor,
is carrying his hand in a bandage as
the result of an insect infection.

Monday evening each member of
the faculty and the office force was
presented with a fine large photograph
of Mr. Bayliss. These pictures
were presented by the Department of
Photography and were made by Mr.
Johnson. It was due to the efforts of
Mr. Bayliss that this department was
formed and all know that its work is
very satisfactory.

ANOTHER FROLIC

On Tuesday, from 3:50 to 5:00
o'clock, the seniors, faculty and sev-
enth grade were entertained by the
eighth grade.

Tb e "gym" was decorated with
pumpkin faces, autumn leaves and
Halloween creations made by the
children.

Probably one of tbe most unique
features of the party was the pump-
kin relay. Even our most dignified
faculty members were invited to com-
pete.

Seniors who wouldn't think of smi-
ling in the class-room won the prize
for the standing broad grin. It isn't
every day that we can learn our past
history and coming fortune as we
did, and the "prophecy by candle" re-
lieved the minds of many. Other
Halloween pranks were played.
Ghosts and witches were very much
in evidence. We'll all agree that the
eighth graders know exactly how to
give a party. Everything was plan-
ned by the children and then their
plans were carried out without help
outside of the class.

AMONG THE CHILDREN

The second and third grade room
was well decorated for the Halloween
activities held there. Black bats
black cats, brownies, witches,
and all the animals and superhuman
beings were in evidence there. All
this was done by the children and fur-
nished them with employment for sev-
eral days previous.

Not less characteristic was the first
grade room. Here the children had
used their spare time in making cats
witches and brownies for the occasion.
Some children brought jack-o-lanterns
from home. The exercises given in
these rooms are worthy of compliment
and are coming to be recognized as
factors in elementary education.

The football team is being put tf.ru
some vigorous practice for the
bard game. The student:,
an effort to get a good crovd to the
game so that the boys may have a
"full house" to play before. The ad-
vertising manager Ls planning a parade
around the square Friday at 3 c
with the band and the students have
notified the townspeople of the game.
They will assemble en the field and be
ready for the Kick-off at 4 o'clock.

Here is a chance for everybody to
be loyal.

The Courier pressman sa.\s that if
he has to run a print shop in fa
(if) and things go as they have gone
this week, there sure will be some
feathers flying.

P. D. ROARK,
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BATLISS MEMORIAL NUMBER

CHE WESTERN COURIER

BAYLISS MEMORIAL NUMBER

VOLUME IX, NO. XIII

MACOMB, ILL., NOV. 9, 1910

sred as second-class Matter Mar. 3, 1908, at the Post Office at Macomb, Illinois under the act of
Congress of March 3, 1879

AND TO HIM OUR LAST HAIL AND FAREWELL.

The Western (

FORWARD

The Courier came into existence
as a weekly issue thru the sugges-
tion and direct assistance of Mr.
Bayliss and its character to-day
s mainly due to his interest
in it. The great number of ex-
pressions of appreciation of him as
i man and an educator lead the
Courier to devote this number to a
memorial of him, our loved Princi-
pal who was summoned when in
the midst of his noblest work.

A BIOGRAPHY

Alfred Bayliss was born in Bled-
Ington, England,. County of Glou-
OBter, March 22, 1847, and was
hristened in the Episcopal Church
if the parish. When but a child oi"
ibout six years his parents came to
America and settled in Hillsdale,
Michigan. Soon after their coming
a .Michigan his mother died. She
«eems to have been a source of en-
ouragement to young Alfred to
u-ek an education, and thru her in-
fluence he had already gained an
;steem for hooks.

His mother died when he was
atoe years of age, and his father, a
few years later. From the age of
12 Alfred made his own way. He
worked his way into Hillsdale Col-
lege or the academy and had done
some college work when, in 1863, at
the age of sixteen, he enlisted in
•he nth Michigan cavalry and
served thru the war.

1'lion his return from the army
lie re-entered Hillsdale college and
graduated in 1870, earning his way
l>y working at whatever he could

in.;.

la l S70 he was eh cted princ pal
of the LaGrange, in liana, s h.ools,
and later becan e countj a rf up< rinten ■
dent of schools in thai county.

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After a term of years, lie withdiew
from school work and engaged in

journalism, having purchased an In-
tel est in "'rhe Sterling Standard;
hut after editing this paper for two
years, dining which time it became
the leading paper of the city, the
school board induced him to return
to the superintendency of their
schools, which he held until 1895,
when he resigned to make It's first
canvass for the cifice of Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction. Al-
though popular favc- was with Mr.
Bayliss, he was defeated in the con-
vention.

After a short period. during
which he was in a measure identi-
fied with the "Child Study Month
ly." he accepted the principals!! in of
the Streatcr Township high school.

In 1898 he was nominate 1 and
elected by the Republican party to
the office of Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction, which he held two
terms. He was elected principal of
the Western Illinois State Normal
School in 1905, and assumed the
administration of that institution in
1906, which he held until Irs death.
August 2 6, 1911.

His wife and two daughters, Ker-
nie and Zee, survive him, and one
brother, William Bayliss, cf Titus-
ville, Pa.

The Wj.-i ern Courier

RESOLUTIONS OF
APPRECIATION

hour.
i ; J. P. MAINS,

FRED R. JELL

Adopted by j he Board oi
Trustees oi the West-
ern State Normal.

Whereas, The hand of death has
suddenly and unexpectedly termina-
ted the life work of Alfred Bayliss,
Principal of the Western illino.s
State Normal at Macomb, and,

Whereas, In its educational and
civic life the state of Illinois has
profited in so large a measure from
his labors and his ideals, and

Whereas, In his young manhood he
had offered his life and all his hopes
on his country's altar, and

Whereas, In all the walks of life
he had met every responsibility with
courage, had performed every duty
with pain, taking fidslity and ful-
filled every obligation with unques-
tioned integrity, therefore, he it

Resolved, That in his death the
wife and daughters lose a devoted
husband and father; the school with
which he was connected an able and
faithful administrator, and the state
of Illinois a noble and patriotic citi-
zen. Be it further

Resolved, That in their association
of five years with Mr. Bayliss, the
members of the Board of Trustee-
of the Western Illinois State Normal
School gained confidence in his prac-
tical ability, have increased their ap-
preciation of his wise counsel, have
admired him for his ideals, and have
learned to love him for the true no-
bility of his manhood. Be it furthe-

Pesolved, That the members of
this board tender to the bereaved
family their heartfelt sympathy and

I ROM '1 HE S'J UDEN1 BODl .

The students of this school iian
been fortunate in having

contact with our late principal, Al
tied Bayliss. -Now that we aie cons'
pelled to look on his life from a far
ther view, we see even more clearl
his noble character. Sincerity am
love were the two virtues win
which his students found him mod
worthily endowed. He was sinced
to the principles that formed hi
philosophy of life. The student
who had occasion to speak to hi^
personally always found him kin
and helpful. Those who knew hi
feel that their lives, dedicated
high ideals and noble acts, will I,
the best way to show their tru
preciation of the life of the "So ii
Schoolmaster."

From Quincy StudentsJ

Permit us, the teachers of
Quincy Public Schools, on this, ti
occasion of the memorial exerci
to give an expression of our heai<
and sincere appreciation of PrincijJ
Altred Bayliss, a man wh( m
learned to know as one of God's n
men and whose memory we s
ver cherish and revere.

We wish to say that we eour
great Messing to have had Mr. B:
liss for our teacher. We admijj
him as a teacher, respected hit-
man, and loved him as a friend.
found him at all ti^es sympathy
and considerate, alv. ays showing

estern Courier

lit > appreciation of the efforts of
students, and ever having their
i Interests and welfare at heart.
Hie death of Mr. Bayliss came as
Lvere shock to us. We shall miss
i more ilian we can tell. We feel
t we have lust a sincere Friend,
t the State Normal has lost a
e and just principal, that the Mil-
y Tract has lost a wise and cour-
lOiis leader, and that Illinois and
nation have lest a most promi-
H educator.

THE QUINCY TEACHERS.

kom Teachers of White-
side County.

Tie teache-s of Whiteside county,
institute assembled, have heard
h sorrow and surprise the an-
Btcemi nt of the death of Alfred
yUss, for twenty years identified
h the educational interests of our
mtv, and desire to express our
I appreciation of his character.
Resolved, We shall ever cherish
memory of one whose genial
seme so often inspired our as-
iblies, of one who brought his
t abilities to the discharge of
ry responsible office, who aimed
the loftiest ideals of his profes-
n, and who always showed a
rm sympathy with the cause of
ind and symmetrical scholarship.

From Sterling Alumni

Vt a meeting of the old Sterling,
nois. Second Ward Alumni, and
| associate teachers, and former
pils of the late Alfred Bayliss,
d Friday evening, September 1st,
i following memorial was drawn
and the committee authorized to

send a copy to the bereaved family
and to the papers.

We meet tonight with the spirit
of love and sympathy o'erflowing our
hearts to pay tribute to our beloved
teacher and friend, Alfred Bayliss.

No one can appreciate more fully
than members of the old Seccnd
Ward Alumni, the need of a just and
unvarnished tribute to one who never
sought praise, but who, turning his
energy to a noble purpose, accom-
plished that purpose regardless of
public opinion.

Twenty years of his early man-
hood were spent laboring among us
with unceasing energy and devotion
— a devotion free from ostentation
and with a keen insight into the ex-
isting needs of educational advance-
ment in general and local needs in
particular.

We remember him not only as a
Superintendent, but as a teacher in
the class room, who seemed peculiar-
ly adapted to impart an inspiration
to the hundreds who passed under
his instruction.

His co-operation with the County
Sunerintendent made the high school
a benefit to the country schools, and
served a special purpose of keeping
the pupils in school till graduation.

He accomplished the first step in
placing the old S. W. High School on
the accredited list of normal schools,
r~i'~~~c. on*! universities thereby not
only raising the standard of scholar-
ship in our city, but also increasing
the usefulness and developing the
possibilities of Sterling boys and
girls.

The splendid Township High
School of which we are so proud
was a "pet" idea of his, which he
carefullv fostered and developed un-
til others became interested.

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Not only did he gi\ e lii earl
hood lo our loi al si hools, but also
showed his int< reel In the uplift of
i he city. To his efforts as a n
and si i n I rj of the flrsl librai
board is largely due i he cr< dit of a
series cf excellent courses of l< I
and music. He also foresaw the tie d
and advantage oi a city hal!.

Thai same concentration of pur-
pose which distinguished i im as a
student, teacher, and editor, made of
him the citizen of progress and a '-
vancement, the embodiment of high
standards. As a citizen, hi lo
to Sterling is clearly shown w] i
expressed to friends the satisfaction
it might he in spending on' 's latter
days in Sterling and finally to be
laid to rest on the brow of the cliff
overlooking the beautiful Rock river.

Perhaps no one could understand
the intrinsic value of his friendship
better than these pupils of hi- who
afterward became his a=s^riate
teachers. His justice, h ; s faithful-
ness to duty, his helpfulness and
his friendship were always examples
to be emulated by his co-workers.

That he attained the hi^h position
of State Superintendent of Public
Instruction after leaving us bad been
anticipated, and that he strove con-
scientiously in this, as in all other
positions, to keep politics out of edu-
cational affairs, reveals in an unu-
sual degree the integrity and broad-
mindedness of the man.

To his family we extend our sin-
cere sympathy, hoping that as they
are comforted in their hanpy recol-
lections of him, we mav all receive
new inspiration for the battle of life
as we recall his success.

ANNA MAY BOWMAN,
SADIE F. MURPHY,
KATE M. STODDARD,

Committee.

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1911. Hon. S. B.

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our favor of 12i

advisini

School will hold memorial exei

for Pi it

ber 27th, at t wo •> clock p. d
inviting me to be present and deli
an address.

1 profoundly regret that official
gagements which I cannot break
pn veni me from attending
ercises i my humble

sincere tribute to the memory ol
man whom I admired and loved.

It was my good fortune to kn
Alfred Baylies for nearly twe
years, and during the last ten ye
of his life I knew^ him intimately.
knew him as in official. I knew
as a neighbor. I knew him a;
friend. To every trust he was fa
ful, in every ft F that he trod
tvas efi dent, helpful and master
and in all the relations of life he
siniere. I never knew and never
pect to know a better citizen, a ss
counsellor, a truer gentleman,
more loyal friend.

W. H. STEAI

I had the pleasure and privi
of knowing Mr. Alfred Bayliss
mately for years, and to me he
a most companionable and lov
man — no conceits, no vain a
tions, no complaints, satisfied "
the world and the chance he
had, yet always with an idea he
working out. I valued Mr. Ba |ss
as a friend for his open-mindedtss,
his freedom from bias, his good j lg-

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i em. and his poise of character.

No one had greater faith than did
le in public education, with which
lis lilt.' was identified, and he was in
nil sympathy with its present ten-
lenci.s. Mr. Bayliss did a man's
vork well in his life; and hi- went to
lis reward without regrets, and 1
lave no doubt that when he awoke
le was satisfied.

W. L. STEELE.

A review of the life of Alfred
Jayliss will bring into true relief
i career of signal honor and useful-
less: a life in which man's obliga-
ions to his work and the world were
met.

The tribute 1 pay to the memory
ind virtues of this accomplished
eacher, honored citizen and wor-
hy ex-soldier Hows from an ac-
Hiaintance of more than oO years.
-"or nearly four years it was my
rivilege to assist him in the dis-
harge of the duties pertaining to
le Department of Public Instruc-
ion.

In the efficient and faithful ser-
ices rendered by th
is teacher in the rural schools, as
ounty and city superintendent of
ic&ools, as principal of a township
ligh school, as superintendent of
itiblic instruction and as principal
if the Western Illinois Normal
School, he accomplished a work in
he educational development of Illi-
iois beyond the power of words fully
o measure. In every pos'tion
k'hich he filled, he was absolutely
rue to his convictions, and unselfish-
y committed to what he believed
\ere the public interests.

In considering the life and labors
it Mi. Bayliss there is something oo-
ond and above the intellectual ef-

fects ei ins woik that command in:
love and admiiat.on. \\ ,.i. he
was a man of stiong convictions and
si tong in the uiu ranee of them, he
possessed a rare generosity of na-
ture, an instinctive regard for fam-
ily ami friends, an inherited sense
of right, a cheerful disposition, an
ever saving sen: i ol kindly humor,
a. 1 an unfailmt, ciarm of manner.
These are qualities which together
make up an attractive personality
such as mark a man as part of the
best there is in the world.

J. H. FREEMAN.
Aurora, 111.

"He was strongly attached to his
friends, true to his convictions, and
unflinching in whatever he thought
was right. I came to know him in
an intimate way when he was a
member of the Beard of Trustees of
the University of Illinois, with
which I was associated. At a time
when the university was expanding
rapidly, and when it had to meet a
myiiad cf troublesome qaestions, h<<
cculd always be relied upon, not only
for his absolute honesty and inde-
pendence, but quite as much for his
clarity of judgment and forcefulness
of statement." — Hon. Andrew S.
Draper, Commissioner of Education,
N. Y.

I leave it to others to tell of the
fine scholarship of Alfred Bayliss, of
his success as a teacher an 1 admin-
istrator, of his life that has been a
beaccn light to many. But to
me comes only the thought
that I have lost a friend. A compan-
ion with whom I have spent happy
hours and with whom I had antici-
1 ated the enjovment of many more,
has gene. I cherish the memory of

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our friendship, and this will remain
to me ever a pr< 'ions possession.
('. M. BARDWELL.

Aurora.

Mr. Bayliss was perhaps most
widely known for the conscientious
and distinguished service he gave to
state and national educational af-
fairs, but many of us will hold him
in memory for the closer personal
and professional relations that de-
velop! (1 during his administration in
the State Normal School.

Mr. Bayliss has enjoyed the con-
fidence and respect of hi.s fellow
school men because of his broad
knowledge of affairs, his safe coun-
sel, and above and beyond all his
seemingly immeasurable charity for
human weakness.

The loyalty of his students was a
real tribute. I have heard them say
repeatedly: "I must succeed because
Mr. Bayliss expects it from me."
This same influence extended far be-
yond his student body, for he was
an inspiration to us all. We all feel
that we have lost not only a co-
worker and counsellor, but a real
friend. R. G. JOXES.

Principal Alfred Bayliss was p
broad-minded, big-hearted, ropgres-
sive and sympathetic man, ready at
all times to encourage and to help
those seeking the higher and the
better things in life. He was always
willing and ready to further the edu-
cational interests and welfare of in-
dividuals and institutions with
which he came in contact. Those of
us whose pleasure and good fortune
it was to know him respected and
admired him as a sincere friend. His
sad and untimely death was a severe
shock to us. We can hardly realize

i ,ji tact i o longer with u

In his death, the Western Illiuo
State Norma] School has sustain
an irreparable loss, the city of M

comb has had to give up a noble cil

zen, the .Military Tract ha.-, lest

sane and enthusiast

lead< r and counsellor, and from I

State of Illinois has been taken aw:

a worthy educator whose

and efficient services could act i

spared.

EDWARD. BAUMAN,

Quincy Schools]

My relations with Alfred Baylii
extending over a period of twenty
mere years, were largely of a soc.
nature. He was a true-hearted ge
tleman, a warm friend, and was s£
ly missed when he left our circle. T
feeling was, and has remained, tl
his place could never be filled.

As a business man his word
beyond question, and as long as
lasts we shall remember him
affi cticn.

J. H. LAWRENCE

Sterling, 111.

I have known Mr. Bayliss dui
the entire time that I have been
gaged in school work in Illinois.
have always admired and respe(
him in the highest degree and
that the cause of education in
State and Nation has suffered
greatest loss in his untimely de

The worth of his leadership i
positions of trust which he
filled is well known, but his ii
ence upon the school work and
school workers of the State re
ing from his noble, unselfish
his sound judgment, his wise c
sel, his sympathetic advice, can i
be fully appreciated. Yet we si

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ll be thankful tor having had Ufred

iayliss so long with us as a friend
nd co-worker.

GER \i;i) T. smith.

Educational circles in this state
aw sustained a serious loss in tiie
oath of the Hon. Alfred Bayliss,
resident of the Western Illinois
fate Xi final School at .Macomb, and
rior to that Superintendent of Pub-
ic instruction in Illinois.

His career as a teacher has been
ne of marked success. He had a
otable career before he was elected
tate superintendent. In this latter
apacity he showed himself progres-
ive. He took the pains to inform
imself o" what was being done in
ther states and countries and tried
3 bring the system in this state up
3 the level of the very best. In par-
icular did he take the deep-
st interest in the work of
fie country schools, and this
e maintained during the time of his
residency of the Normal. The con-
dence of the people in his ability
nd efficiency was shown by his re-
lection to the office of state superin-
jndent. Then during his second
;rm came the call to the presidency
f the Xormal, which for the last five
ears he has ably administered. The
[•hool during that time has had a
rowth of a substantial and perma-
ent character, and has added a num-
cr of new features that have keDt it
breast of the times. Mr. Bayliss
as ever keen to promote efficiency
l all departments. Of recent weeks
e has devoted much time and study
D plans ofr the new Woman's Hall
3r which the Legislature made ap-
ropriation, and but recently visited
everal institutions in this state to
ain ideas. He was conscientious and

thorough in his work and inspired
others, lie had the confidence of his
board and the affection of the pupils
and the teachers, to whom his death
will come as a great shock.

In proof of his love for the country
schools, it can be said that he insti-
tuted a model country school, the
board acquiescing heartily, and this
school proved a valuable adjunct of
the institution.

Mr. Bayliss has often appeared at
institutes and on other occasions in
this city and county and was admired
for his substantial qualities. He has
been closely identified for the last
quarter of a century with all that is
best in educational progress in Illi-
nois, and his death, when apparently
he had yet years of large usefulness
before him, is a large public loss. —
Ualesburg Register.

Then, too, Mr. Bayliss had faith.
Not faith in the superstitions of a
dead past, but faith in the vital fruit
of a living present. He stood boldly
and splendidly in the advance guard
of intellectual and moral pioneers.
He was not afraid of truth. He was
openly hospitable to the largest af-
firmations. His optimism was con-
vincing because it was a personal
asset in his conquest of life. Then,
too, he was self-poised with a confi-
dence born of his own sincerity.

The championship of modern
ideals subtly reacted on the high
school as an institution and in turn
on the life of the community. His
belief in democracy of opportunity
and aristocracy of worth was part of
his sane, rational, well balanced
mind and will live on in the hearts
and minds of his associates as an in-
tegral element of his character.

Of such are the enduring monu-

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nil. u, , e to the tr< nd of

affairs b( ri ,,,.:, ator. As a man
in i Le i rai tica] and social life o
tow ii he was always li] eable f r his
rm human Byjnp.al tiies, for I

for his ready wit,
for his iini ersal kindlini -s and e r-
dial Fellowship.- independent-Times,
SI feal li

in of indi id al

and worth. A son of poor parents,
his hands took hold of toil as soon
as he was old enough to work, a sol-
dier ,'or his country while in his
teens, was the sort of foundation on
which to erect not only an educa-
tion, bul executive ability with it.
Added to all this was a character of
sturdy, straight-forward, manly in-
dependence and honesty; virtues
that all admire and of which we are
sorry to say the world has not
enough. Nor was there in this in-
tegrity fnd rectitude of character
the least iota of pedantry or narrow
bigotry. On the contrary, he had
broad views in this field. He always
save credit for men being more
honest than do the generality of a
community, and had a wide charity
for those who fell or came short of
true civic or individual virtue. Set-
ting a mark of exact honesty for
himself to follow, he always save to
others the benefit of the doubt.

MACOMB JOURNAL.

In the death of Mr. Bayliss this
state has lost a champion of prog-
ress but in this district, and espe-
cially in this county, do we feel the
greater loss. It was here that he
gave his time and talent to the work
in detail, advising and working with
teachers of all grades. He was ever

willing to help bj

the schools -

all tii<

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The news o n a;jd

our old frie
Hon. A. Bayliss caused
si trow in all larts of Whites
county. His mission w;,-
one, his spirit was fearless, and

'Well done, good and faithfur t
v nt." B. V. HEXD

M( ri .sen, 111.

I knew Mr. A! tied Bayliss first
Superintendent of Public Instruct!
Here he was sympathetic, help
and was
and encouragi

county superintendent was mak
lie was therefore an ins] i
a more consecrated and eo
( ffort on my part.

As i resident of the Western
nois Normal School, I have <
close to him, and learned to appi
ate his great-heartedness men
spirit of sympathetic interes
which he followed his graduate
tin It "< Ids ol '■' rl was fatherly
tender. This revealed to me his
ne c s and tei d rness to a degr
had not before known.

S. J. FERGUS

Pock Island.

I always found Mr. Bayliss a
sniration and very helpful to
al! my relations with him as cc
superintendent of schools. H<
much for the elevation and imi

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liii'iii of the country school. Hi
.leath is a distinct loss to llio cms
at education. M. M. COOK,

Bupt. oi Schools, Fulton County.

It is with Hi lings o
;orrou that 1 h arued ol I lie deal b i I
Mr. Bayliss. Mj acquaintance with
of his ol sction
is Superintendent o) Public ins; < ,i<
Lion. My relath ns v\ ith him in this
apathy were most pleasant. I It- was
in excellent adviser and counsellor,
ind one could at all times feel that
in him he h id a friend. Mis con-
:1m t of I i State Superin-

- too well 1 n w i! to need
Ggfrther con . but his work

:ind influence there will be felt fo 1-
years to come in the schools of Illi-
nois.

His work in Macomb will be an
Qadoring moni'tneni to his ability
ind management. Through his ef-
fcrts this school soon took rank with
he very best nf our normal schools.
In the establishment of the model
•ountry school and the one-year
too! cour; e, 1 Feel he did
- for the cause of edu-
ation.

In his death the schools :f Illinois

lave suffered an irreparable loss.

1 feel I have lost a good,

rue friend in the fullest sense of the

word.

The world can ill afford to lose
men like Alfred Bayliss.

C. L. GREGORY,
County Supt. Mercer Co.

saw tin ir needs and
planned for their welfare with pecu-
liar insight, sympathy, and wisdom.
Those of us who are older will not
so< n for ,et his i tigged manhood; his
unusually discerning judgment in
p.] a i oal affairs, and the constant
evidence of res< n e i i .

F. (J. ■ .MTIO,
Supt. Schools G-alva.

Mr. Bayliss was a man notable no
less for his sanity and balance than
for his rugged strength. In his
thought he magnified the teacher and
in his own life he justified the
thought. The Country Schools of
Illinois have had no better friend — •
r.o cue of greater discernment and
sympathy and no one whose sire: I .
was given to them in .41 eater meas-
ure. Teachers will mourn Air. Bay-
liss as a wise and helpful friend; and
all, whether teachers or not, will
look upon his going as a serious loss
ublic education.

W. F. BOYES,
Supt. Knox County Schools.

President Bayliss was a good man,
a straight, strong, honest man. Illi-
nois can ill spare him. The country
respected him. He had been on some
of our great national committees. We
had learned to know the man. You
can not at once replace Bin..

JOHN R. KIRK.
Pres. State Normal School,

Kirksvil'.e. Mo.

All who have come into anything
: ke intimate contact with Mr. Bay-
liss must feel in his death a keen
personal loss. But it is the children
»f the State, and especially those of

Payli&s is a true man, loyalty, in-
tegrity, good fellowship, geniality,
modesty, and purity — what more
could I aspire to be.

J. F. McCULLOUGH.

Chicago, 111.

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The death of Hon. Alfred BayllM

i.s a distinct personal loss to me. The
loss to the state can never be meas-
ured. Genuineness was his strongest
trait. Insincerity, to him, was im-
possible. To know him was to love
him and confide in him. His advice
was sought and value 1 because it
was motived by the love of truth and
not by the pleasure of the moment.
Intellectually he was clear and deep.
H( seized the kernel of the subject
and was neither deceived nor amaz-
ed by the husk. He was a man of
convictions and dared to hit at shams
and fallacies.

Illinois will ever remember and
revere his name for the great things
he did for its educational advance-
ment and emancipation. Not only
that, but he will be lovingly cherish-
ed in the memories of our successors
in the educational work for the
greater things that his prophetic in-
stinct caught and held up for the
inspiration of our great common-
wealth.

To me he was a friend and coun-
sellor. To few men do I owe as much
in a personal way for inspiration, for
better conditions socially and edu-
cationally, and also for a fuller per-
sonal living, as I do to Alfred Bay-
liss.

G. W. COXX, JR.

Woodstock. 111.

My acquaintance with Alfred Bay-
liss extended over a quarter of a
century, the growing period of edu-
cational ideals and institutions in
Illinois.

To enjoy his friendship was a
great pleasure and to enjoy his con-
fidence, a delight. It was my good
fortune to enjoy both. To those who
were thus favored, Mr.Bayliss proved

tumseli to be a loyal friend, a
i llor, and a ti UtitvfrOl

la i. He was a goo
aiid measures and possessed in a hij,
degree the ability to discriminate c
tween the true and the false, bet we
sham and pretence on the one ha

<- genuine and sincere on
other. For the former, he had abt
lutely no use. For the latter be
the greatest admiration.

Though frequently called upon
mingle with and to address large
semblages of people, he preferred
small company. Seated at a ta
surrounded by a few trusted frieni
he would single out a topic, usua
P< naming to some measure lor
advancement or betterment of «
cation and ask, "Is the thing feasil
is it practical? What objections
liable to be met and what obstai
to be overcome in carryin" it ou
This, not for the sake of controvei
but to bring within his field of
ion any possible factor that
have escaped his thought. Hav
once decided upon a course of act
he moved forward toward its
tion unflinchingly and unswervin
He rarely made mistakes, hence
had few to correct. I have cle
in mind the last of these little
ferences it was my pleasure to
tend. He set forth at this time
proposition for enlarging the st
and usefulness of the Military T
Normal School in a way not ye
my knowledge undertaken by an;
the Normal Schools. I am inforitd
he had plans well perfected forts
consummation when called to hisie-
ward by the beckoning of the r.m
Hand.

A. C. BUTLER,
Supt. Schools, Abing

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"His ability to seize upon the cen-
tral idea of a large and complex situ-
ation and to state it in simple lan-
guage, enabled him to accomplish
great things quietly. His work as
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Will constitute for him a permanent
monument. We are still discovering
big things done by him during tbe
eight years he was superintendent,
which at the lime of accomplishment,
attracted little or no attention."—
Hon. F. G. Blair, Supt. Public In-
struction.

"There were few whom I held in
such high respect and esteem, and
added to that was an increasing
fondness." — Pres. L. C. Lord, Char-
leston Normal.

"The cause of education has lost
one of its most faithful students and
most conscientious advocates." —
Pres. D. B. Parkinson, Carbondale
Normal.

"We honor him for his fine ser-
vice in posts of high responsibility,
and most of all for his genuine man-
hood." — Pres. David Felmley, Old
Normal.

"The problems of Macomb Normal
are well on the way toward solution
when Alfred Bayliss takes hold of
them. You watch Macomb and see
it come out all right." — Pres. John
Cook, DeKalb Normal, in 1907.

"Not only we, but education in
Illinois, will feel the loss of Alfred
Payliss."— Mrs. F''p Flagg Young,
SBOt. Chicago Schools.

"I have few friends, and of that
few I felt that he was t h <* met
surely mine." — Supt. Orville T.
Bright, Chicago.

"I cannot do more than write to
you of my extreme sorrow at Mr.
iiayliss' death. — Hon. L. Y. Snei-
man, Springfield.

"He was a man who filled to the
full every place he was called upon
to occupy. None can measure the
good he has done, and the deeds, for
the betterment of mankind, that live
after him, can never be numbered."
— Wm. Hawley Smith, Peoria.

"Illinois has lost one of the most
tireless workers for better things in
our schools. He laid foundations up-
on which others will build." — Geo. A.
Brown, Editor School and Home
Journal.

"He was a strong man, a gee 1
friend, and we all loved him." — Da-
vid Arnold, New York City.

"After all it is a great thing to
live like a man and die like a man.
This he did; what more can be said?"
— O. B. Ryon, Streator.

"I have known him for nearly thir-
ty years and have valued his friend-
ship as highly as that of any man I
have ever known. He was constant.
He was genuine. He was loyal. He
was a man. And so his death is a
permanent loss to the state and to
his host of friends." — Wm. S. Mack,
Aurora.

"I never knew a finer type of gen-
tleman. I never knew a truer, sincer-
er man." — Hon. W. H. Stead, Spring-
field.

"Alfred was my friend and fellow
schoolman for many years, and a
comrade whom I revered." — C. C.
Duffy, Dept. Commander, G. A. R.

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"And to him our last
farewell."— Class of '84, Sterling.

TRIBUTES FROM THE

MEMBERS OF THE

FACULTY

An Appreciation

The agent of bereavement is at
times as mysterious as it is certain.
Jl was so with the unfortunate de-
parture of our good friend, Mr. Al-
fred Bayliss. in finishing a life of
unusual perfection, he has left us
the fairesl legacy he had — the exam-
ple of his life, which, if patterned,
Will win honorable acquirements and
true friendships. What a precious
inheritance it is, when we become
possessed of it in its fullest realiza-
tion.

Here was a man so gentle by na-
ture that little children sought the
pleasure of his words. It was his
delight to engage them in conversa-
tion and stimulate them with the
deeds of noble men. If he had any
preference, his whole heart yearned
for the educational advancement of
the youth, and the common welfare
of the common schools. Such was
his solicitation for them, that it was
his constant thought, in his days of
labor, and in his hours of rest.

In his relations with his associ-
ates he exhibited rare patience and
was most kind. He never allowed
anyone to exceed him in generosity,
and always praised the virtues of the
unappreciated. His gentle spirit
filled the soul of a friend with cheer-
fulness, and he always dealt kindly
and justly with those in opposition.
With the subtlest tactfulness he
wove the threads of personal diver-

IntO a fa i

of al

g< iii < bis adjust!

tnents with

public relal
li'.n the school functioned, it founal

i;i him a man

unusual grace and dignity.

\\ hat has b» en ac< omplished in
the five years of his labors, eannoi
now The scholars of

future y< ars will live '
• Even now his ideals ha

I o 'ated in the curricula o
.Normal Schools.

In the days of our sorrow
for an outward expression
true worth of a great man, but find
it not. We cannot, neither iz
experi

customed to such a Ioe
aecepl it as an event in the eternal
. we will agree that his li
emely beautiful in its fullness
and completeness. The s;ji ri -
man and his works remain with us,
and we accept their benefit
nuenee with sincere appreciation.
THE FACULTY.

Xo man gave himself more freofl
or devotedly to his work than did Al-
fred Bayliss. With him in a rare and
fine sense a public office was a public
trust. Hating shams and impatient
with fine talk, he was generous in ap-
proval of solid accomplishment even
in little things. His integrity ot
mind and warm heart won for him
the love and respect of all his stu-j
dents: what finer tribute can be paid
to one who gave his life without stinti
1 1 the advancement of the teacher's
work? To all who really knew him
Alfred Bayliss was a great soul.

J. E. McGILVREY.

shier
uliie

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when l met Mr. Baj liss five yeai s

g last April, the first thing lie did
was to take out his watch to -

was on time for my appointment.

ice i have become acquainted with
him. I Know how characteristic a
thinsi that was for him to do. Order

- i 11 :• of the first principles of his
life. Doing everything at its proper
tiiu.'. duinu the right thing at the
right time, these qualities not only
help ns to understand his greatness,
but are further evidences of his great
Of fairness.

SUSAN B. DAVIS.

The inspiration from the noble life
of our great friend Mr. Bayliss is so
far reaching, that everyone connected
with this school seems desirous of
carrying out his plans and wishes.
MARTHA J. HAXXA.

In all of my dealings with Mr.
Bayliss I have found him a man of
performance rather than a man of
promises, a man of deeds rather than
a man of words. He never wasted
time promising what he would do,
but quietly went ahead and did more
than you had dared to hope for.

H. BASSETT.

It was Mr. Bayliss' sanity and judi-
cial fairness which impressed me
most. He never jumped at conclu-
sions, nor especially sought the popu-
lar applause. He was like a judge
of a high court of justice. Before
permitting himself to form a conclu-
sion he asked for the evidence, heard
arguments on both sides of the ques-
tion, turned it over in his mind and
examined it from all sides, and de-
cided the matter on its merits. Con-
sequently he seldom made mistakes,
and was always a safe man to follow.
O. M. DICKERSON.

just to me." This great, noble,
magnanimous man was a friend to
u. i all, faculty, students, and child-
ren of the training school. We have
lost a friend, a strong friend. The
cause of education has suffered a
distinct loss. The rural schools of
Illinois have lost their best friend,
the man who thought of them long
before others did and worked and
planned for them, the man who gave
his best thought to their improve-
t and uplift, who dreamed of
their progress and had faith in their
possibilities. Our loss and their
loss can not be measured, but we
shall be better and the country
schools of this and other states will
be better now and in the years to
come because he lived and was our
friend and their friend.

CAROLINE GROTE.

Mr. Bayliss was a true teacher.
He had a deep interest in the school
system of Illinois and worked inces-
santly to better school conditions.
As a Normal School Principal he al-
ways did what he thought was best
for the school. In his dealings with
students and teachers he was always
fair and honest. He stood for a few
strong principles, which we believe
have made a decided impression on
us all. The memory of his life will
ever be an inspiration to me.

J. P. DRAKE.

I like to remember Mr. Bayliss'
special interest in the younger stu-
dents and his genuine sympathy with
their difficulties. These seemed char-
acteristic traits of his broad and
generous nature.

MABEL L. CORBIN.

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up iiic dag ;ik he taughl them to do,
standing with bared licails in its hon-
o, , we iir« reminded afresh thai one
of the larg< St factors in the life of
An. iiayliss was his sincere love of
bu country, tne served her interests
devotedly in war and in peace and
taught the children to reverence her
flag and her institutions. ills in-
fluence will long abide with us
tluough these teachings.

CORA M. HAMILTON.

"An honest man's the noblest
v> 01 k of God."

MARGARET DUNBAR,

Librarian.

A friend of Mr. Eayliss' said to me,
"You are going to work with one of
the »•--'■ mej in the state." I have
found those words to be true.

J. T. JOHNSON.

Of all men I have known and
worked with, Mr. Bayliss best under-
stood and appreciated what I tried
to do. His open mind, his sympathy
and cordial kindness made him more
than the ordinary friend and his loss
i? greater than I can express.

ANNE MAUD SHAMEL.

President Bayliss was to me a man
\ ith a great and kind soul — remark-
r'jle for his rich experience, sound
judgment, integrity of character,
clear intellect, and unsurpassed tact.
R. M. GINNINGS.

His spirit will ever live in my
r emory, not merely as the spirit of
an educator, but as that of a friend.
RALPH T. BISHOP.

v. ithin the range ol bis personal!

closely enough to feel it..-: gra
ficent power; to bare felt the valuef
of bis smiles of approbation, and
joyed the Inevitabli Jest accompany-
ing it when something pleased hi
well; this I count among the most
precious privileges that have e\er>
come into my experience.

BLENDA OLSON.

First Of all in Mr. Bayliss' rela-
tions to his teachers, to his school, tal
the world in general, it seems to me,
was his friendliness. No one ever
came to him for sympathy or help"
and found it lacking. He had always;
a cheery word for the discouraged|
and depressed.

His fellowship with his teachers if
perhaps expressed in the following
verse:

"You belong to my club?
Yes, you're one of my club,
And this is our program am

plan:
To each do his part
To look into the heart
And get at the good that's it
man."

GLADYS FISHLEIGH.

He was a man of great resource'
in handling difficult questions of edu
cational policy, and proceeded so ra
fonally and candidly that he seldor
failed to secure the thing he sought
and when he seemed to fail, he lai
a foundation on which public opinio
is building. He was great enough
labor and to ""i* ■>*»«' ^e "as n
afraid to do what his judgment ai
proved.

S. B. HURSH.

To have known and honored Mr.
jiyliss as a man, friend, teacher,

The Alumni who have had the pr
vilege of graduating or working ui

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Br the direction 01 Mr. Bayliss, ha\<
na.l Bet before them a high ideal of
Btice, of devotion to duty, and of
Krfessional integrity a priceless
Rtritage.

CLARA KIRKPATRICK.

In appreciation of the children's
Bend. Ho believed that to help the
children was to help all humanity
■ th truth ami sincerity. He was so
ari:e in heart that ho could see
;onio gccd in everyone and he nave
)f his human sympathy and kindness
o help them all.

X. 1!. LAMKIN.

1*0 have lived in touch with Mr.
■yliss' high ideals is to have had
>ne's own ideals raised to a higher
ribindard.

FAXXY R. JACKSOX.

There is no one of us who has
cnown his kindness, his helpfulness
ind his friendship who is not the
>etter and stronger for it.

HELEX M. ATXIXSOX.

Alway
1 friend.

a friend to one in need of

C E. WHTTE.

Mr. Pavliss' thorough annreciatWi
I every honest effort was alwavs an
nrentive to those with whom he
ame in contact.

LELTA E. G-RIFFIX.

""rv one who knew Mr. P«-"-
rppidered it a privilege to work un-
ier his direction. His daily exaT>ii e
»f untirine; industry, careful atten-
i>n to detail, skillful and exnert
Koarat'on, and conscientious dis-
har^e of duty, were living lessons
o all.

MRS. JOSIE A. TABLER

As wo come in reflect upon the
agiiltude 01 our great loss, ami our
lations to Mr. bayliss, 1 am po-
inded of these lines from Emerson:
"All things through thee take

nobler form
And look beyond the earth,
The mill-round of our (ate appears
A sun-path in your worth.''

JE SIE BUCKNER.

1 count his friendship one of the
chiefest pleasures of my lite, a com-
fort in time of doubt and tiouuie, a
joy in time of prosperity and suc-
cess, and an inspirati n at 2II t'ra s.
EVA C0L3Y.

I am glad of the opportunity to ex-
press my appreciation of the fact that
to his students who were really in
earnest in preparing for their profes-
sion, Mr. Bayliss was like a father.
LAVINIA STIXSOX.

In the passing of Mr. Bayliss, the
little children have lost a good and
true friend. His v sits to them weie
always received with the greatest de-
light. As they grow older they will
come to a fuller realization of his
goodness.

LUCY L. SMITH.

He walked abroad and met all

kinds
Of querulous and uneasy minds,
And. sympathizing, he shared the

pain
Of doubts that racked us, heart

and brain.
Think of him still the same, I

say — ■
He is not dead — he is just away.
MARTHA McLEAX.

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MEMORIAL EXERCISES

ADDRESS BY MR. W. L. STEELE
li is altogel in i fitl ing and proper
that we gather here this afternoon to
pay our respecte to the memorj of
Alfred Baylies, and to expr< .-
appreciation of hie work, for tin-
world is richer and better foi
life. My world is.

I shall not attempt here any criti-
cal analysis of hs life and work, for
that, to be honest, would involve his
imperfections and limitations.. These,
I am glad to say, do not rise in my
memory when I think of .Mr. Baylies.
They properly belong to the historian,
and I shall leave them with him. I
shall speak of him simply as a friend,
as one who loved him, as one who at
times feels lonely now that he has
gone.

Living as 1 do in a railroad centi r,
I had the opportunity of meeting him
often when he was state superintend-
ent. In performing his official duties
he frequently had occasion to pass
through Galesburg, and in the course
of eight years he had many times to
wait there an hour ormorefora train.
Sometimes he could remain all night
to advantage. It soon became under-
stood between us that it would be his
duty to let me know when he would
reach Galeshurg, and it would be
mine to ar ange to be in my office
at such times. Tired of traveling
and at times weary of, if not disgust-
ed with, the petty affairs of official
life, we would retreat to the private
office. The couch was always his.
He once remarked that it was the
easiest one in the state. Such con-
ditions were conducive to commun-
ion. It was thus I came to know
and love Alfred Bayliss.

He told m< 1)1 I

in his lift

mother when a Child

new home, of his l< i

cself and to g<

Of his entering HilU

his re] eated effort i to ei

the war broke out, and of his finaljj

succeeding when he was ei

resuming and completing I

tion at Hillsdale after the war wj

over, of the Bret school I

and how he became a county supeil

tendent, or commissioner, in Indian!

■ or'K in Sterling, hi
ence in Streator, and how h
nomination for state superintended
alter he had secured a majority j
the delegates. To recall tl
sions now is one of my most treaafl
p*l memories, for I feel that at suJ
times I had a rare and sacred prni
lege of coming into vital touch wi 1
a «• u1 that was essentially pure ail
heroic. They warm my heart a; I
make me a little more tender in ni
treatment of the homeless child, ev<|
though he may be wayward; and n|
reverence for the grey-haired msl
with the brown button is increasJ
immeasurably. Mr. Bayliss was I
patriot in all that that term mearl
I shall not attempt to narrate tfl
incidents when, as a boy, he was m I
understood; the times when j
longed for sympathy from those I
had a right to expect it of, but i j
reived indifference instead and somj
times positive injustice. . It is n
necessary. It is sufficient tr ] knei
that he had such experiem's a
that these, which according to o J
of my theories of life are the cau*
of so many children becoming wrecl
ed or handicapped before they real

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maturity, in his case proved not to

>e stumbling blocks but stopping-
stones. In bis mature life, when he
vas defeatetl by treachery for the
tate superintendency in the Peoria
convention, he did not drop out of
<igbt and become forgotten, bur four
later he was nominated and
elected by tho same political party.
This was simply a repetition of bis
■nee as a boy; of how those
disappointments in life which are
usually sufficient to completely dis-
courage the ordinary mortal, turned
out in the end with Mr. Bayliss to
his positive advantage. Let no one
impose on us by presuming to ac-
count for the remarkable series of
s in his life that were unexpect-
edly changed from pparent defeats
to glorious victories by saying, "It
was Bayliss luck," for by so doing we
would fail not only to know our
'riend. but we would miss one of the
most important lessons it is designed
frr us to learn. It was marvelous to
me to hear Mr. Bayliss tell these ex-
periences without a trace of emotion.
So completely would he put himself
in the place of the other person and
view the matter *rom his standpoint,
that not one word of bitterness would
fall from his lips. Malice and re-
venge were not a part of his nature.
Sweet charity was his. The "luck"
of having his defeats so often turned
into victory was the result of these
characteristics combined with rare
gcod judsmei.t. His life is a demon-
stration that the world will finally
rally to the support of a sensible and
just and charitable man.

Another element of his character
that had much to do in determining
thefmal result of these crucial experi-
ences, was his habit not merely to
labor but to wait. The power to

wait is one of the rarest of gifts, or
acquirements, and it is an essential
condition of success. . This power
Mr. Bayliss possessed to a remark-
able degree. It was never the result
of indifference but always of confi-
dence in the Tightness or righteous-
ness of the cause, and of absolute
faith that his fellow man would do
the right thing, in the final analysis,
if he weer given the time — a faith as
complimentary to him as to his fel-
low man.

My mind loves to dwell on Alfred
Bayliss in the making, more than on
him as the honored state superin-
tendent of a great commonwealth or
the strong principal of a strong nor-
mal school; for today our school-
rooms are full of boys whose oppor-
tunities are greater than were those
of Mr. Bayliss, and yet few of them
will ever even approximate his char-
acter or achievement. In view of his
life, the theory, which prevails gener-
ally today, that it is the environment
that make the man, mtit be false, or
our schools must he woefully defec-
tive. There is no doubt something
of truth, but more of error, in each
of the statements. I look upon the
life of Mr. Bayliss in its formative
period as largely a battle between
himself and his environment in which
bis personality won a signal victory.
That it is ordained that personality
may win in every such a battle, I
hold is a healthful doctrine to make
attractive and fascinating to youth,
the life, character and achievements
of Alfred Bavliss might be made a
source of inspiration to any home-
less and discouraged boy.

Few persons enjoyed life more
than d ; d Mr. Bavliss, though it was
always in a quiet way. In the first
place he was blessed with almost
perfect physical health. He perhaps

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uev* r bad an ache or a pain until
after be be ;an e State Superink n l-
e i . He had none In all bie army ex-
pe ience.

Again, he enjoyed a friend. He
1 ew how to appreciate one, and he-
al ways had, wherever he was, a few
— one or two as lie would say — in
whose com. any he could te< I al
home. This was especially true
when he was a boy and when lie was
in the army. Those early friends
were friends indeed to h'm. He had
a delightful way of showing his
friendship. It was seldom in words,
but often in deeds done in a quiet,
thoughtful way that left no doubt of
their sincerity. His temperament
was ideal. He was never on the
mountain top, and I never saw him
in the valley. I have heard him
time and as-sin say, "I have no rea-
son to complain. The wt rid has
given me a fair chance. I am sat-
isfied."

To the companion of his life and
his daughters, whose interests en-
tered so largely into all his plans, my
sentiment is one today of congratu-
lation on the rich heritage that is
theirs.

After Daniel Webster's death an
old farmer, who had fished with the
illustrious statesman many a day,
visited his grave and, standing at
its foot with bowed head, said,
"Daniel, the world seems lonesome
without you." Today as I stand
heie, I feel like saying, "Bayliss, the
world seems lonesome without you."
— Read at the Memorial Exercises
of Alfred Bayliss held in Normal
School Auditorium at Macomb, at. 2
p. m., Oct. 27, 1911.

ADDRESS BY MR. S. & HUR1
My acquaintance with .-.

century ago, am) gradually grt
a ore Intimate up to the l i
death. I think I knew him mo
fully than I know any other edtj
tional man. During the last fitte
years we have been mu<}.
and our acquaintance gre* Into n
friendship.

J find it difficult to speak of him
a public way: for, although
have passed and the ordinary routi
of life has been crowded thick m
iui ies, still the Icps of him is d
rresent, and doubtless will be foi
l( n t; time.

As the years passed by I noted W
satisfaction his steady growth in p
fessional strength with his gro\
opportunities and responsibilities,
always improved the position
which he worked from the humbl
to the highest; and he seemed ne
to misjudge his own strength.

I am glad t-j speak of him in
relation to his work and faculty h
in the Normal school: for I know t
what I wish mo«t to say will ace-
with the fee'ing of every one of
Where a group of mature men
women pre brought together in ;
a work, the parts of which are <-"
timately interlaced as in a nori
school, and especially men and
men who have had positive exp-<
p'^f-p in the problems of school wc
there must be positive diffprence
orinion. Vr. Baylies invariably g
all members the fullest liberty of
pressicn of views: and when
jarred he easily brought about
mony, and we went our several v
in good will. In the five years ]t'
I do not recall a single instance wi

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;m>re lias existed animosity between
(Embers. We have been a kind o;'

happy family. 1 do not hesitate to
say that such condition was due in
brge pan to his splendid example of
frankness, tolerance, forbearance and
kndness.

I think he entered upon the wort
here with a slight feeiing of dread.
The reorganization of the school 01
I basis of larger usefulness meant to
r:m some radical changes, a time of
ancertainty and period of years of
steady growth before anyone und-i--
tnking the work could feel sure of
the results. He said to me once,
when speaking in a general way f
what this school ought to grow to,
"If I could be sure thai I could have
'on years of its administration I
should not fear for the results." As
we see it today, and as the educators
n; the state see it, we are convinced
t '-at he moved with more speed thin
h" had hoped, and I want to say that,
in my judgment, he, in his own indi-
vidual capacity, did a splendid, a
nsnly, a progressive work here, u
i'(en's an irony of fate that he mas"
; ass when the assurance of success
in the large sense in which he saw it
inly to be realized.

I may be rard^ned for speaking of
certain Dualities of mind and hea i
so rtrifrinsrl-" prominent in him, al-
' h u-h it be so T netihn nr o^arer'etition.
r Vrre are certain cardinal eleman L .?
of character thnt when well grown
in hnr"?n life hint of the ideal, and in
the estimation of life they must he
r°d.

>*r. Bayliss possessed a keen and
comprehensive sense of justice. It
seemed easy to him. There seemed
to be no bias or rreiudice in his na-
ture. He invariably held aloof from
conclusion until he had wrought into

the problem all its factors. He al-
ways impressed me as desiring, first
of all, to be right, and his intellectu-
al grasp of the things essential gave
him sureness and stability of judg-
ment beyond most men.

Then he was so fair; he would go
farther to defend the man whom he
had reason to believe had wronged
him than any man I have ever
known. If injustice or unfairness
held any place in his nature, it was
towards himself. He was not given
to expressions of sympathy or emo-
tion of any kind, but he seemed nev-
er to forget the one who needed a
chance.

Some thought Mr. Bayliss was
hard to know; was cold; and I can
see why that might be so to some.
His fellowship was not manifested
in the transient relations of social
life, the outward personality. He
must be measured in the realm of
the intellect, and the field work. He
seemed to find less of interest in
the pasing, recreative chat, but he
would stay to the end of any serious
discussion and his opinions and
judgments were always of real con-
sequence. No one ever thought him
cold who had occasion to receive his
help, and no one eevr sought his
help who did not receive warm and
generous treatment.

We rarely consider the importance
of humor in real life; that trans-
muting power of the soul by which
it turns the thousand festering an-
noyances into helps, or sweetens the
imaginationwhen life seem dull, the
outlook gloomy; when faith is weak,
and possibly all the creative ener-
gies are at low ebb. This recrea-
tive rower of mind and heart Mr,
Bayliss had in large measure. The
most trying situation never failed to
reach the humorous side of his life,

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i . ue io i.I. boisterous laugh, nor

,i' Btoiy of "broad" humor, but the

ontaneous mirth, that lasts

trough a second thought. There

as a peculiar significance in his

at it dealt s i frequently

it'i « at might have provoked ill

ill, but that h s quaint allusion to

made it se>. :u pitiable rather than

■ hy.

1 always thought that if then'

ere an) gocd that to him was

"s it was the spirit

• -in. He had no great

with the pyrotechnics and

lay f-at is c mmonly sup-

:a li -i ;e patri itic feeling.

o him patriotism v as deep anil

al: tre hroir'e button was a sa-

ed emblem, the love of the flag

i Hion. an 1 man's duty to

a or a soldier

he seemed to hold highest in the ob-
ligations of manhood^ He could ex-
cuse almost any frivolous prank in
student life except that which sa-
vored '.l' dishonor to the flag-. The
only time 1 ever saw him show signs
o. aimer was when some thoughtless
students in some prank with class
(oicts cut the Hag rope. It was
more to hurt him than a provoca-
tion.

There is no feature of his life that
s* a nds out more clearly to me than
his scrupulous conduct of all public
ami private business. Strict hones-
ty to hint was as needful in the mi-
nor detail work and business as in
the affairs of greatest consequence.

In all things Mr. Bayliss held up
to himself the most rigid code of
honor and in both public and private
life he obeyed it both in letter and
i'.\ spiiit. S. B. HURSH.

ALFRED BAYLISS

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MACOMB NORMAL SCHOOL, OCT. 27, 1911.

Funeral Mirch — Chopin . - Mias Dunsworth

Invocation - - - Rev. W. T. Rodgers

Qjartet ..... '06

Address - - - - Dr. L. C. Lord

Address ... Mr. W. L. Steele

Solo - - - - Mr. J. Ruffner

Address - - - Mr. S. J. Ferguson

Address - - - - Mr. S. B. Hursh

Quartet ..... "06

"God Be With You Till! We Meet Again."

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Vol. IX, No. XIV

Iacomb, Illinois, Nov. 16, 1911.

ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER

Copy 5 Cents

ILLINOIS UNDER

IE ACT OF CONGRESS

THE GAME OF HANDBALL

How It Is Played in Brief — Thi
Is a Good Old Irish Game.

The good eld Irish game cf hand
ball is a game peculiarly suitable for
students, especially when it may be
played out-of-doors. For the benefit
of students unfamiliar with this sport
as played in many colleges, Y M.C.A.
gymnasiums and city clubs in Amer-
ica the Courier has asked me to say
something about it. Spalding's booklet
on hand ball, which contains a his-
tory of the game, says that a good
court may be constructed for about
$3000. As ordinarily played among
amateurs however, a good smooth
wall about fifteen or twenty feet high
preferably with side walls against
which a ten cent rubber ball, or better
a tennis ball, can be bounced, together
with suitable floor spaces with even
surface, is justification enough for
outlining a court and starting the fun.

The paraphernalia required by the
contestants is very slight. In fact
one in his citizen's clothes may find
good sport with hand ball, and that,
too, whenever only a half hour is
available. Hand ball is a student's
game because it requires little equip-
ment and expense; it demands
focused attention and is therefore very
recreative; it develops quickness of
eye and movement; it exercises all
the muscles, not one only; it is easy tc
learn but leaves plenty of chance for
increase of skill; it is a rapid game
and one interesting to watch providing
the players are speedy; it may be
played by two or four persons. If
played in the contest the game will re-
quire endurance as well as alertness
and it therefore tends to increase alert-
ness and staying qualities.

The court should be marked off by
side lines, ace line and back line.
(Continued on page 52)

A LITTLE DISCUSSION

Plan To Combine Two Associa-
tions Is Discussed in Chapel.

The past week has seen some very
healthy discussion on a very live
subject. The proposition originally
vvlb to unite the Athletic and Ora-
torical associations. This plan was
submitted to the students for dis-
cussion at the chapel period. In the
discussion other plans came up for
consideration.

The plan that seems most feasible
is briefly as follows: The Oratori-
cal and Athletic associations should
be combined under one constitution.
Each member would pay fifty cents
for a ticket at the beginning of the
autumn quarter. This ticket would
admit the owner to all games and
secure one year's subscription to the
Courier for half-price. At the be-
ginning of the winter quarter fifty
cents would be charged for a mem-
bership ticket which would admit
the owner to all games and to one
Oratorical contest. The ticket for
the spring quarter would cost seven-
ty-five cents. This would admit the
owner to all baseball -games, and
track meets that were held, and
would also admit him to the Ora-
torical contests.

Before the reader condemns this
plan, he should consider the aim of
all student activities. It might be
said, first, that money is not the
prime object. There is needed only
enough money to pay actual expens-
es with a very small surplus for
emergencies. The prime aim is to
have the students at the games and
contests. Granting this to be true,
then comes the question: "What
plan will bring the desired results?"

A compulsory fee from every stu-
dent who registers would undoubt-
edly supply funds. It would not
necessarily foster an interest in
games and contests. Besides it
would lead to certain complications
that might meet some opposition.
Volunteers fight better battles than
men are drafted. Students who
join the association voluntarily will
be more enthusiastic than they
otherwise would.

Making the term tickets such a

A VICTORY IN FOOTBALL

Our Boys Show St. Albans Defeat
By a Score of 28 to 0.

The team from St. Albans Military
Academy met defeat at the hands of
our team last Friday. The final score
was 28 to 0. The field was muddy
making the game seem rather slow.
Our boys were not in serious danger
at any point of the game. Gain could
be made when the ball was in our
possession but the visitors could gain
only by hard bucking. Ralph Wilson,
Wetzel, and Dobson were successful
in advancing the ball on line bucks
and Foster, Huey and Sorer.sen did
well on open running.

The St. Albans boys kept their grit
in the face of defeat, and deserve
great credit for their hard fighting.
The quarter back showed extraordina-
ry "nerve" going back into the game
when hardly able to walk alone. Right
here it should be said that the crowd
showed courtesy to the visitors and
even applauded them when a good
play was made. There was not that
lack of sympathy some times shown
when an opponent gets hurt. This is
the only thing that can save "Football"
in the eyes of common people.

AHho the boys won easily, they
consider it worth while to win from a
team like St. Albans.

Miss Stella McMillan who gradu-
ated from the Academy last year, has
been teaching in LaSalle county. She
is home for a two weeks vacation now
because the people in her district are
compelled to keep the children out of
school to help "shuck" corn.

bargain that any live student will
buy one, will be the best plan the
association can follow. The associa-
tion cannot prosper unless the stu-
dents can see benefit to themselves
in the arrangement.

So _____

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Board of Managers.

Senior Paul Lea< h

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben Went

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Offlcio Mr. McGilvrey

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THE PARABLE OF THE MULES

Once there was a man. This man
had two mules. One was large, the
other was small. Each mule had a
harness. One day the man hired a
boy to work for him. He said to
the boy: "Go harness my team and
plow in the field." The boy said, "I
will." At noon the boy came in.
The man said: "Did you plow
much?" The boy said: "No, not
very much." The man said: "Why?"
The boy said: "The big horse could
not pull. His harness was too
small. The collar choked him. The
tugs were too short. The singletree
bumped his heels. The backhand
made sores on him. And he would
not pull. The little mule will not
pull. His collar was too large. It
hurt his shoulders. The tugs rubbed
the hair from his legs. And I could
not make him go." The man said:
"Let us go to the barn." The man
looked at both mules. He said to
the boy: "Change the harness. You
have the big mule's harness on the
little one and the little mule's har-
ness on the big one." The boy
changed the harness. He went to
work again that afternoon. At night
the man said: "How much did you
plow this afternoon?" The boy said:
"I plowed two acres this afternoon."
The man said: "Did the mules work

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well?" The boy said: "Yes; they
can pull the plow." The man said:
"One mule cannot work well in an-
other's harness, neither can one man
work well in another man's place."

SCENERY

One may behold beautiful sights
around this Normal School. Tin-
campus, with its winding walks, and
the ravine, with its autumnal colors,
are both pleasing and elevating, but
the writer is doubtful if such scents
can compare with those sometimes
seen inside this beautiful structure.
We will all agree that a young lad
leaning on the window sill, tying
knots in the curtain cord, talking to
a bashful yet romantic young lady,
is a hopeful sight to behold. There
is a time and a place for everything,
so they tell us. The time to make
love is of course during a vacant pe-
riod or at noon and the proper place
is at the end of the hall at the
window. Such scenes are often no-
ticed in this school and are certainly
elevating ( ? ) .

THE RHYME OF AN OPTIMIST

What if your ball team is losing,
And the chances are looking quite
slim,

Old Fate is doing the choosing,
So leave the matter to him.

It's easy enough to be happy,

When the team is winning the
game.
But it takes a real sport to besnappy,
When the players are losing their
fame.

Most any old plug will keep working,
When the wagon is headed down
hill;
But it takes a good horse to keep
jerking,
When his team-mates are stand-
ing dead still.

So then let us keep up our spirit,
No matter what's coming our way,

No team is so big we will fear it,
And we'll win a victory some day.
— A. P. P.

ANOTHER APPLICATION OF
SCIENCE

Those who have been looking on
the moving picture shows as detri-
mental to society, may soon have the
opportunity of seeing education car-
ried on in part by the moving pict-
ure process. Thomas Edison has a
scheme in mind which, if carried out
as he has planned, will revolution-
ize some of your methods of teach-
ing. Harper's Weekly says that Mr.
Edison proposes to teach arithmetic,
geography, science, history, and oth-

-. •.
in b-.i editorial
pers rather doubts the pracl
of teaching arithmetic by thii means,
but speaks favorably of the plan of
teaching history, geography, and
.science.

Mr. Edison sent a company tc
Lexington to fight again thai

ion and says ;.n
has films that will aid r.> teaching
that particular point ;n hisb
er historic scenes have been trans-
ferred to films and will soon be
ready for use. He has in mind a.
plan for teaching science that sounds
quite plausible. In teaching geo-
graphy he proposes to photograph
the sheep flocks of Australia; show
how the wool is cut from the sheep;
picture its journ- y across the ocean I
and finally its manufacture into I
cloth in the mills of England. The I
picture machines and films will be
rented to the schools for eight dol-
lars per week and Mr. Edison says
the board can save that amount in j
travel officers' salaries. The pict-
ures will be made so interesting that
the children will not want to missj
school.

Although this theory is somewhat
novel it is no doubt to be reckoned
with in a few years. Those now
preparing themselves for teachers
need not fear that the picture ma-
chine will rob them of their posi-
tions. A teacher will be needed
should this movement strike every
school in the country, if for nothing
more than to keep the children
from throwing paper wads under the
cover of the darkness that is neces
sary to the viewing of motion pict
ures.

The College Eye from the "Iowa
State Teachers College" calls our at-
tention to the fact that that school i<
a "College" and not a Normal School
The Courier believes any school whose
business it is to train teachers i;
worthy of the name "College". Tha
would mean, however, thaf the presen
Normal schools would have to add tw>
years to their courses. We wonder i
most Normal schools will not do so i
the near future.

I can't see how some folk find
So much time to loaf and be lazy,
When in their heads they have sue

a lack
Of brains and escape being crazy.

The Two Hundred Old Maids in tl
'Gym" Friday.

The Wes

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Courier

VIOLIN RECTAL

Mr.Leroy Stocker will give a
violin recital tomorrow morning at
Chapel. In this connection it should
be noted that Mrs. George Kullmer
played Liszt's E flat Major Concerto
f or the piano and Miss Dunsworth
played the orchestral part on a second
piano. It was an exceptionally fine
number and deserved the applause of
all who can in any measure appreci-
ate music.

COBURN PLAYERS AGAIN

The Kirksville Index tells us that the
Coburn Players have asked for a re^
turn date. Lets get our outdoor am-
phitheater erected and then maybe
they'll ask us for a return engagement.
Those who were here last summer will
recall the excellence of the plays the
Coburns presented. At the time it
was suggested that "Merchant of
Venice" "Romeo and Juliet" and,
"Taming of the Shrew", would be
good plays next year.

JINGLES

To what does the catamount?
And what does the cinnamon
bear?
How fast can the adder count?

Who combs the Belgian hare?
How many lynx make a chain?
What makes the cassowary?
Does it take six dairy maids

For every dromedary?
With plenty of alligators

Should we ever need a shoe?
If we should eggs-ostrich glades

Could we ever make them gnu?

When a rock strikes the ccean's

undertow

Does that make the sea-mew?

Does it give you a pain in the brain

When you try to think who's zoo?

— Miss M. H. Prentice, in

Cleveland Leader.

The above would indicate that we

have a teacher in this school who

sometimes devotes herself to jingles.

Miss Mamie Thompson went to
Media last Friday and gave a talk
on the "Country School and the
Community."

HAYES FUHR HEARD FROM

The following is from Hayes Fuhr,
of last year's class, who is now in-
structor in voice in Culver Military
Academy at Culver, Indiana:

My life here is different in almost
every detail from that which I ha\e
previously known, but I think is
none the less beneficial and broaden-
ing. Culver Academy is one of the
richest of its kind. I suppose, in the
country. There are four large bar-
racks, a finely equipped hospital, ex-
cellent gymnasium and riding hall,
and a superb mess hall. The latter
is claimed to be the finest of its kind
in the world, and after having tasted
of its good things for several months,
1 find it hard to imagine how it could
be bettered.

I am living in the "annex" to the
main barracks, in company with sev-
eral other officers, and the atmos-
phere is most congenial. Just across
the hall rooms George Vivian, the
manager and one of the best actors
in the Ben Greet company. He is
here temporarily teaching public
speaking. We have grown to be great
friends. He is an Englishman
through and through, and a most
congenial fellow. I read some of
Hamlet to him the other night. Seem-
ed pleased with my idea of it. Mr.
Andrews, the violin man, also rooms
here, and he is a fine chap; plays
beautifully.

The music department has three
studios, one for each section. Nearly
everything is furnished, and I am
very much pleased with mine. I
teach about thirty lessons a week —
have glee club and choir — and these
duties, coupled with reading and
practice, keep me very busy. Just
now the faculty is arranging for a
series of morning chapel talks on
various neglected and important top-
ics, and it has been my ill luck to
fall heir to several assignments.

Classes sta'-t at 8:10 a. m., im-
mediately after chapel, continue until
noon, and then after "guard mount"
(appointment of sentinels) they con-
tinue until 3:15. From that time un-
til 6:00 comes drill, football prac-
tice, etc.

The discipline is very strict, and
although the men are a gentlemanly
lot, as a rule, any breach is instantly
and severely punished. For each of-
fense a certain number of demerits is
given, and when a cadet has more
than six he is compelled to walk an
hour in the "bull ring" with others,
for each demerit above that number

And now, how goes Normal? I

think of you irany times and wish I
might drop in for chapel. Have you
decided on a class play? I always
look for the Normal Notes in the pa-
pers, no matter how things change or
where I am. I shall always remem-
ber associations and experiences
there as some of the happiest in my
memory. Are you preparing for the
oratorical contest as yet?

The bugle is announcing first class
call so must stop.

LEADING ARTICLE IN

PROMINENT MAGAZINE

Miss Eva M. McMillan, class 1911,
is the author of the 'eading article in
the November number of the Journal
of Geography, one of the two leading
magazines on the subject of Geogra-
phy published in this country.

Miss McMillan's article is entitled
"The Present Status of Geography
Teaching." The data for this article
was collected from teachers of geo-
graphy in normal schools, and other
geographers of all parts of the coun-
try.

Some of the conclusions drawn
from this study are interesting. The
courses most generally offered in the
order of their importance are physi-
cal geography, regional or general
geography, methods in geography,
and commercial and industrial geo-
graphy.

In the grades the average time de-
voted to geography is five years. The
average length of the courses in
methods in geography is twenty-eight
and one-half weeks, and over one-
third of the schools offer one year or
more.

The majority of teachers are plac-
ing the emphasis upon theknowledge
of relationships rather than upon
the mere acquisition of facts.

The casual element is used to a
small extent only in the lower grades
and increased up to the eighth grade,
putting the eighth grade almost en-
tirely upon that basis.

All the virtues of language are in
their roots moral; it becomes accurate
if the speaker desires to be true;
clear, if he speaks with sympathy and
desires to be intelligible; powerful, if
he has earnestness; pleasant, if he
has sense of rhythm and order.

— Ruskin

Ralph Stickle has so far recovered
from his football accident that he is
again in school.

The Wf.s iti n Courier

THE GAME OF HANDBALL

(Continued from page 49)
The server starts the game by using
his hand much as one would a tennis
racket to bat the ball against the wall
and over the ace line, when it mjpt
be returned by the opponent. Failure
to return counts a point for the op-
posite side. Of course there are fculs
and penalties, and rules for the server,
but in brief, and simply, the game is
as stated. Where the little ball may
be bounced against the front wall in
snch a way as to send it to a side wall
and on to a back wall, under such cir-
cumstances Hand Ball becomes in-
deed exciting. I should say that many
students of the Normal would care to
got recreation in hand ball. The
lawn at the back of the building, out-
side the gymnasium and study hall,
looks like a suitable spot for one or
more courts. If the lawn is not avail-
able the gymnasium may be adequate
for two or three teams.

THE WALTZ

The waltz is a round dance originally
of French origin but so modified in
Germany as to belong really to that
country. It became popular on the
continent at the beginning of the
nineteenth century and was introducsd
into England in 1812. It is danced to
music of f time by any number of
couples, who wheel rapidly around
advancing at the same time around
the room. The two great composers
of waltz are the two Johann Strausses
(father and son). The waltzes written
by some of our classical masters are
not intended for dancing. They are
high art forms having little more in
common with the real dance than the
f time. Chopin is the originator of
this form of waltz. Since then many
eminent composers have cultivated
this form. They generally add some
qualifying adjective to the title as
'valse nodle', 'valse characteristic',
'valse melancholique' and the liKe.
— Alleyne Allison

The student publication from
Hillsdale College, "The Collegian" is
now in the library reading room and is
worth your notice.

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THE NINTH GR^DE BUSY '

The ninth grade has been divided
into two sections for literary v/ork.
Mr, Ira Burnham is president of the
Lincolns and Mr. Fred Robertson is
president of he Irvings. It has been
said that their meetings are very in-
structive and would put the Emer
ians and Platonianfc to shame. Last
week a contest was held between the
two groups, each speaking in concert
the poem "Columbus". The Lincolns
won the contest and received the sil-
ver pennant. It is the plan for each
section to give a program on alternate
Thursdays. The class this year num-
bers sixty-five and makes a very in-
teresting group to teach.

THE LOMBARD GAME

Lombard College defeated the
Normal boys on the home field by
the score of 18 to 0. The visitors
were heavy and also speedy. Our
team kept their spirit remarkably well
but could not withstand the battering
irom the College team. This brief
account is due to lack of space.

MUSIC APPRECIATION

Miss Shamel asked a certain class
in music to write on a slip of paper the
titles of their favorite songs and instru-
mental pieces. Among the variety of
names she received the following:

"Up with the Angles."

"Schubert's Masquerade."

"Moonlight" By Sonata.

"Silent Nights."

"Cavalry."

She is very much puzzled over the
result and wonders if it would be well
to give the students a chance to be-
come acquainted with the best music
and musicians.

If you find your thoughts a-wandering

into ways they should not go,

Call them back!

Force them down the paths directed

by some wise old thought, you know.

If they're willful or uncaring, put your

foot down, say them no;
Stop them ere they reach their woe.
Call them back!

— Farm Journal

Virgil Cati.r: ha just finished a fine*
library table k. : Lcr-n : :

g on an equally fine one. Georg^
Salisbury Is • &!nutj

rockers started la.t sunrr.er term.l
All these speak well for the efficiency*
of the Manual Tr& - ..en.i

A letter fro
who is teaching at Reynolds. ! ',., ~nyM
he has one hundred pup:L enrolled :ra
his school and thirty-five under hi si
direct supervision. His teaching is ev«
idently going along well for he says*
"All of them are real live beys and*
girls. Most of them are working hard.'«j

If your neighbor subscribes for th
Courier you had better let him read

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NORMAL 19-GALESBURG

The Foot Ball Team Wins Victory

Number Two — It Wasn't Such

Hard Work Either.

The Normal squad gained a victory
over the Galesburg High School last
Saturday on the home field The grid-
iron was very muddy, making running
a hard propos : tion for the phyers. The
first quarter was played practically the
entire time in the visitors' territory.
Gains were made by Dobson, Wilson,
Stickle and Wetzel thru the line.
Sorensen, Foster, Stevens, and Huey
made good gains in open running. The
visitors held our boys for downs sever-
al times and protected their goal line
with determination. At the close of
the first half the score stood in our
favor 10 to 0.

The second was hard played by
both teams the result being "time out"
for injured players. The visitors ex-
perimented with the forward pass but
were not very successful. In the
last quarter the home team
tried the pass to a considerable extent
making some very good gains by it.

Huey was injured in the last quarter
and was taken from the game. Stev-
ens was used at quarter and under his
directions another touchdown was
made. Goal was kicked and the game
ended 19 to 0.

The visitors played a clean game
and displayed considerable pluck even
in the face of defeat. Galesburg has
fallen victim to our football and track
teams so far but they have always
"showed us up" in basketball. They
are an agreeable team to play, no
matter in what sport and it is hoped
they will remain on our list.

Below is given the lineup.

Galesburg Normal

Scott re Foster

Johnson rt Stickle-Smith

(Continued on page 56)

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«— — -»

Anticipation

BOYS' CLUB ORGANIZED

Every Man in School Is Responsi-
ble For Every Other
Man in School.

A Boys' Club was formed last week
at a meeting called by Mr. McGilvrey.
This club exists for the benefit of the
boys in school and every boy is a
member. The principal appointed a
committe of three, Mr. Johnson, Mr.
Walrath and Mr. Dickerson to act as
an advisory board lo the boys individu-
ally and to meet with them at regu-
lar intervals thruout the year.

This club is not a secret association
nor is it an instrument to be used as a
'"pry". The idea is to show every
man in the school that he is respon-
sible for every other man in school
whether of student or faculty denomi-
nation. The spirit of good fellowship
in its highest meaning will be pro-
moted in every possible way. The
members will soon come to see the
positive benefits of such an organi-
zation. This is probably the first blow
in battering down the conventional
wall between students and faculty.
This does not mean that the respect
for the faculty will be lessened but
that the timeworn "Fatherhood" will
give way to the more useful "Brother-
hood".

STATE'S HIGH SCHOOLS

State High School Conference to

Be Held at Urbana

This Week.

The State High School Conference
will be held at Urbana Thursday and
Friday of this week. M this meeting
the high school teachers from all parts
of the state discuss the problem of
high school teaching.

Mr. Johnson has prepared about
forty extra fine photographs to be ex-
hibited there. These photos illustrate
the work on our experimental field
and also the other phases of the school's
activities. Many of the pictures are of
more than ordinary interest because
they have been co'ored very skillfully.
The picture of the building is so true
to nature that it seems only a reduct-
ion of the real thing. One photograph
of a half dozen ears of corn is so real-
istic that one might take it for a real
painting. One set shows the com-
parative growth of clover on plots with-
out treatment, and plots with various
fertilizers applied.

A DOUBLE-HEADER

Table Grove High School and the
Macomb High School will play a
game of Football next Saturday on
Normal field as a curtain raiser to the
big Normal- Hedding game. Those
students of the High School who do
not hold High School Athletic tickets
and the students of the Normal who
do not have Association tickets will be
able to see both games for thirty-five
cents.

Manager Black and coach
Walrath have tickets which they
wish to have sold to the residents of
the city. Any boy who will sell ten
of these tickets to outsiders will be
given one for his work.

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Hoard of Managers.

Senior Paul I, each

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade I'ena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . . Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma . . .Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Offlcio Mr. McGilvrey

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASST. EDITOR

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

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WHAT IS CHARITY?

In deciding whether a given act is
right or wrong every person is the slave
of his "set of mind." That is, all the
past experiences relating to the act in
question and the present view point
influence the decision. No two persons'
past experiences are alike and their
ideals of the right or wrong of a certain
act are very seldom the same. This
would mean that no two minds can
see in an act the same consequences
or results.

For example: Two men are watch-
ing a baseball game,— a deciding
game it may be. One is interested
in the home team, the ether in the
visiting team. The visiting team is
ahead by one score. A player on the
home team hits the ball over the
centerfielder's head. The runner
touches first base, second base, and
third base in rapid succession. He is
nearing the home plate. If he can
score, the game will be tied. In the
meantime the fielder has recovered
the ball and has thrown it toward the
catcher at tne home plate. The run-
ner and ball arrive at the same instant.
The catcher tags the runner. The
play was very, very close. The man

interested in the home team almost
unconsciously yells "safe". The man
interested in the visitors automatically
yells "out". The one v/ho shouted
"out" did not do it to be dishonest.
He was excited; his eyes were following
the runner and at the same time
watching the catcher. His mind had
already declared the runner "out" and
when the climax came his mind made
him see the condition and he of course
shouted the word "out". The same
thing is true of the other man. His
mind had pictured the runner "safe"
and his team tied with the visitors.
So he shouted "safe".

Now what about it? Both men are
sincere, each believes his decision is
right. These call each other liars, yet
each is telling what his mind made
his eyes see. Knowing that this con-
dition exists what is to be gained
from the above discussion? Before
any man gives his judgment on an
act and by so doing declares himself
right. He must consider his neighbor's
view point and must not forget that
his decision is influenced by the "set
of his mind." When thoroly con-
vinced of these facts one would not
carelessly express an opinion that
might lead to unfavorable criticism.
Knowing this and doing it, is charity.

SAYS .

Says the novice, "There are two
people in this world, you and I. I
may do what I wish to do and you
may do what you wish to do. It's
none of your business what I do, and
it's none of my business what you do,
as long as you don't tread on my toes.
If I want to make a noise when a
visitor plays a piece of music in
Chapel, that's my business. What's it
to you? It doesn't matter to me what
people think of me. 1 haven't any self
respect. I am as good as any one;
therefore it's nobody's business when I
make a noise ."

Says the man of true life experi
ence, I do not live to myself. I am
you and you are I. What I do
affects you and what you do affects
me. I like the Chapel music. You
make a noise and that annoys me.
I respect the person who comes to

visit us. You do not. Our 1
does not know you from me. '//<-.
are the same. He goes away ar.d
says they did it. Who is they} I am
they and you are they. You zV.'.t the
apples and we got the whipping.

ARE YOU?

Are you a visitor? Like a comet, a
transient object which enters our midst
and in a moment is gone, do you
leave us wondering what good you have
done for the schools? Or are you an-
other kind of a visitor-one who enters
the house to while some hours
of someone's precious time in go.,
to the detriment of all concerned?

This boy expressed the status of

the pupils of the school. From the

Editoral Column of the Canton Pen-
nent.

THE BOY SCOUTS' CLUB ROOM

Our club room is located on the
lower floor of Miss Dunbar's flat south
of the Normal. We have rented this
because we were lacking a place to
give vent to our pent up energy. The
room is fairly large, containing drawers
in which to put our uniforms, gas
lights, steam heat, a few chairs, and
a table; these are all the furnishings
the room contains as yet, excepting
a few books which we have brought
there to start a library. In the
athletic line we have a punching bag,
and a pair of Indian Clubs, and Lieut.
Wetzel has promised to bring a set of
boxing gloves.

— W. S.

LOOKING AHEAD

The Canton Pennant gives an ac-
count of a basket-ball game which was
played with the Washington High
School at Canton. The Cantonians
won this game and seem to be in high
spirits for the coming season. Our
basket-ball team will probably have two
games with that team so we will neces-
sarily have to work or lose.

J. M. Irwin of Quincy was here inp
consultation with the Sequel Board in F-
regard to the printing of the Sequel, r

The Western Courier

A MUSICAL PROGRAM

The "program" Friday morning
at the Chapel exercises was the best
by far that has been given this year,
Miss Bess Seibeit of Bushnell sang
"Give Me the Sea", by Woodworth,
and "What's in the Air Today" by
Leoni.

Mr Leroy Stocker of this city gave
two violin selections, "Meditation"
from Thais, oy Massenet, and
"Barcarolle" from Tales of Hoffman,
by Offenbach.

"Bayliss is dead!"
The letters bold vanished and reap-
peared,
The world seemed suddenly grown

cold,
The heart and brain too dull and old
lo grasp the fact they feared.
"Bayliss is dead!"

"Our Friend is dead!"
The heart benumbed feels the first

stab of pain.
And memories of dear, dead years,
Bring the relief of smarting tears
We strive against in vain.

"Our Friend is dead!"

"A Man is dead!"
Mourn with us, world!
Such men are all too few.
Sinew and Brain and Heart to fight,
Hating the wrong, helping the right,
Mourn with us, world,

"A Man is dead!"

And yet not dead!
The torch he bore, and dropped at

Death's command,
Passes to those he loved and taught.
Fruit of his life — Seed of his

thought —
Take up his torch!

He is not dead!

The above poem was received last
week from one of Mr. Bayliss' old
students, and the inspiration was due
to the memorial number of the Cou-
rier. We print it because we believe
it expresses the feeling many have.
He has requested his name should not
appear.

SOCIETY NOTES

The Emersonians met Thursday
and initiated about twelve new mem-
bers. After this, a program was
given, consisting of a piano solo,
reading, and a discussion of the com-
bination of the associations.

The Platonian society gave a
Thanksgiving program last Thursday
at their regular meeting. The or-
chestra gave their selection, the La-
dies' Double Trio sang, and Miss
Shamel sang a solo. A story, poem,
essay, and debate, were included in

the program. Before the program
Air. MeGilvrey gave a brief talk to
both the Platonians and Emersoni-
ans on society work which will, it la
hoped, encourage the societies to
faithfully discharge their duties.

NINTH GRADE NOTES
The ninth grade literary societies
are working up some spirited de-
bating. Last week the Irvings dis-
cussed the Woman Suffrage ques-
tion and this week the Lincolns will
debate the respective merits of
Thanksgiving and the Fourth of
July as national holidays. At each
meeting two critic's reports are
given, one by a student and one by
a member of the faculty. These
criticisms are proving a very help-
ful part of the program. Another
feature which promises to give good
results is the Parliamentary Law
practice. This last week it was con-
ducted by Mr. Bishop, assisted by
Walter Pollock, John Kennett and
Paul Ginnings.

PEACE PRIZE CONTEST

Notice has been received from the
American School Peace League of the
Peace Prize Contest which will close
March 1, 1912. Normal school se-
niors in the United States may write
an essay, containing not more than
five thousand words, on "The Oppor-
tunity and Duty of the Schools in the
international Peace Movement." Se-
niors in secondary schools in the Uni-
ted States have for their subject,
"The Significance of the Two Hague
Conferences."

Three prizes of $75, $50, and $25
will be given for the three best es-
ays in each division.

The board of managers of this
league is made up of the most promi-
nent educators in the United States.
The prizes will be given in July, at
the next meeting of the league, which
will be held in connection with the
National Education Association at St.
Paul. For more definite information,
inquire of Miss Davis.

SENIOR CALENDARS

Some very attractive calen-
dars are now ready for your inspec-
tion. The Senior class is offering
these, and you may take your choice
of five different scenes. The price
may be known by inquiry at the ta-
ble in the alcove.

All out for the Hedding Game
Saturday at 2.30.

PLAY

We have had some fine fall days
for play and some splendid play
spirit. You can usually pick out th«
good, all-around student, by the way
he plays. You can likewise come to
know the indifferent ones and the
skin deep ones by the way they
play. Play translated means the
things that we do for recreation and
rest, and change from our regular
work. Play does not mean a care-
less waste of time and energy, but a
building up in the right way of the
social sides of our natures. There
is just as much to be learned in good
play as in good work.

He who works well usually plays
well, and appreciates the value of
each.

Every student should have a gen-
eral knowledge of as many of the
field games as possible. There is an
opportunity to learn these games
and there is a joy and a satisfaction
which comes to those who know and
enjoy them.

This knowledge means that these
games will become playground
games in many schools, where these
students will later be in charge.

Do you know football, volley ball,
tennis and archery? Do you spend
some time each day out of doors?
Are you studying yourself and your
needs and are you making the most
of your work and of your play?

Stop and think.

The student who expects to suc-
ceed in the higher and finer phases
of teaching while neglecting tire-
some detail is:
"Like one who should decline,

For lack of skill to paint a sign,
But, try him in the landscape line,

You'll find his genius quite di-
vine."

At least thirty children have been
sent home from the training school
because of the diphtheria scare. All
those who live in the fourth ward who
are not over twenty-one years of age
were ordered home yesterday.

Mr. Hursh gave a very inspiring
talk to the Y. M. C. A. boys last
Tuesday evening. His subject was
"Physical, Intellectual, and Moral
Control".

The school directory will be ready
for distribution in a week or two.

V\ i rERN Courier

SECOND ONLY TO NIAGARA

We hardly realize that only forty
miles away there Is being developed
a huge electric plant, that a dam ia
being built across the Mississippi
river a quarter of a mile long and
30 feet wide; that a building 1,710
feet long, 123 feet wide and 133 feet
high Is being built; that the plans
call for thirty huge water wheels
that will run large dynamos, which
will furnish 200,000 H. P. of elec-
tric energy.

St. Louis has contracted for a
large part of this already and the re-
mainder will be quickly taken. This
will be a great thing, not only for
Keokuk and Hamilton, hut for all
Wesern Illinois and Eastern Iowa.
It will give a sure and reliable pow-
er at a low cost.

It means many new manufactur-
ing plants and many new electric
roads, and there is the possibility of
using this power to run the railway
trains.

It means also a good, new system
of locks for the rapids, and that the
dam will flow the water back 50 to
6C miles. This is a $25,000,000
project but they expect to have the
plant ready to furnish 120,000 H. P.
by the spring of 1913. It may mean
better lights for Macomb.

Some of the young men of the
school are looking for recreation in
much the same manner that the
young man sought the largest ear of
corn in the field. In waiting too
long to select, he had finally to pull
an unfilled ear. Running is an ex-
ercise not to be easily surpassed.
Cross country running is particu-
larly to be commended to the men
of this school. One needs little
equipment for it. The squad runs
only twice a week and follows the
elected leader always. Until you de-
cide where among the teams you be-
long, get into the cross country
squad and get ready for a lomg dis-
tance relay, a hare and a hound
chase, or whatever is planned. At
any rate, take your exercise out of
doors this weather.

The Ninth grade boys are organ-
ized for some energetic work in bas-
keball. Fred Robertson and John
Kennett have been chosen as cap-
tains of the first and second teams,
respectively.

Seniors, juniors, and some others
are busy arranging their programs
for the Winter Quarter.

"The Skirmisher," the student
publication from the Hillsdale, Mich-
igan High School, lias been received
and may be found on the reading
table with the other numerous ex-
changes.

The Cornier has a "chalk-plate
machine," which makes it possible
to transfer cartoons to a plate on
short notice.. Mr. or Mrs. Cartoon-
ist, just come on with your ideas. If
i hey are to the point, we'll use them.

Hedding was the only ?chool which
won from us last year. Let's make
them our victims Saturday.

"The Watch Tower," the quarterly
publication of the students of the
Rock Island High School has been re-
ceived and is truly a representative
school paper.

A certain student in this school
noted for oratory will probably prepare
an oration on "The Curse of the
Hobble Skirt", in the near future.

Miss Dunbar was Thursday attend-
ing the annual meeting of the Illinois
Clubs held at Cialesburg Nov. 14-17.
The principal address Thursday was
given by Mrs. Philip N. Moore of St.
Louis, president of the General Feder-
ation of Women's Clubs who reviewed
the work of the Federation and outlined
some of its plans.

Even if the foot ball team has won
two games straight now, is that any
reason why our support should cease?

If a full grandstand will make a
winning team, why won't it keep them
winners after they once succeed.

Where are our three uniformed yell
leaders?

Grant Huey who was injured in
Saturday's game is able to be in school
again.

The Galesburg second team will
play the Normal second team on the
Normal field Thanksgiving day. This
promises to be a very spirited game
and students will find it worth seeing
even at the expense of a turkey cele-
bration.

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Field Judge-Decker

"The bpinner" from the Higbee
School at Memphis, Tenn., was receiv-
ed this week. This number is in fact
a Memorial Number t~ Miss Jennie
M. Higbee a former teacher there.

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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS

1AR. 3. 1SOS. AT

ACT OF CONORESS

FOOT BALL SQUAD

VICTORIOUS AGAIN

Hedding Receives the Hoped For

(By Us) Defeat by a Score

of 20 to 11.

The boys redeemed themselves for
the beating received last year.

The Normal boys have once more
shown their prowess in handling the
"pigskin" by defeating Hedding
College last Saturday. Score 2 0-11.
Hedding came determined to win,
and our boys were equally deter-
mined to make good for the beating
received last year from the hands of
the Methodists.

It would be impossible to select
any really bright star among our
boys, but to say it in as few words
as possible, every man "starred."
Yet several spectacular runs were
made by Black, Stickle, and Foster,
while Huey returned punts with his
usual vigor.

The attendance was the best that
has been seen this year, and the team
was supported loyally, due to the
cheers which could be heard rising
continually from the grandstand.

In the first quarter Hedding
kicked off to Normal. The team
made rapid gains by punts, which

(Continued on page 60)

FACTS CONCERNING
THE BONFIRE EPISODE

The Truth About Last Saturday

Night's Affair Is Presented In

the Following Article.

Concerning the bonfire celebration
of the Normal School boys en the
evening of November 25th and the
articles relating thereto in the Macomb
dailies, the Courier wishes, for the
general information of all concerned,
to call attention to the following facts:

First, that the Normal boys, before
planning for the celebration secured
permission from the police authorities
to build the bonfire at the designated
place, thus indicating clearly their law-
abiding spirit and attitude which is
characteristic of the entire student-
body.

Second, that the crowd gathered at
the bonfire to enjoy the fun further
showed their spirit of good citizenship.
There was not the least interference
with the rights of any one, and no dis-
position to destroy property. After the
bonfire had begun to die away, one of
the boys who had been sitting upon a
(Continued on page 58)

AT THE STATE HIGH
SCHOOL CONFERENCE

The Western Normal Was Well

Represented at This

Gathering.

On Friday and Saturday of last
week was held the annual High
School Conference at the University
of Illinois. TMs conference is of es-
iecial interest to us, since it was
originally a plan of our own Mr. Mc-
Gil\rey, organized by him when he
was High School Visitor, to bring the
state university and the high schools
of the state into closer touch with
each other.

The annual meetings have proved
to be of immense help to the high
schools, since the leaders in school
work are enabled to come together
with their common problems and are
given an opportunity to confer with
each other and the heads of depart-
ments in the university to the great
advantage of both. The steady
growth and improvement of Illinois
high schools in the past ten or fifteen
years is due to this influence more
than to any other one thing.

The meetings themselves have de-
veloped and changed a great deal
since the beginning. The organiza-

(Continued on page 60)

The Western Courier.
Hoard of Managers.

Senior Paul Leach

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School .... Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Officio Mr. McGilvrey

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASS'T EDITOR. THERON CHANEY
ILLUSTRATOR. . .VIRGIL CATLIX
Business Manager .. . . C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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THANKSGIVING PROCLAMA-
TION

We, being students, have more to
be thankful for than any other class
of people in the world. The laboring
man should be happy that by his
strength he is able to produce some-
thing for the benefit of mankind.
The merchant and manufacturer
should be glad they can supply the
race with some of the necessities of
life. The student should be thank-
ful that he is getting a broader view
of life and a more thorough prepara-
tion, so that he may accomplish more
than his fathers did. Then should
we feel grateful to the state of Illi-
nois for commanding a structure to
be built and teachers to be employed
to instruct those who seek instruc-
tion.

In the account of the Normal-
Galesburg football game, "The Budget"
makes the following statement, "The
boys received fine treatment and a
square deal from the Macomb men."
We hope our boys will keep this spirit
and prove that football players are
quite human after all. In this con-
nection we might add that "The Bud-
get" last week was a very good
number.

Western Courier

REWARD

Behind all work, especially irk-
some work, there is generally a hope
of reward. It is often true that the
reward is very meagre. Some men
work very little and apparently re-
ceive ample reward. Other men work
very much and receive little visible
reward. If money is a reward, then
those who have money are those
who have worked the hardest. Those
who have no money, by this rule, are
not workers. Reward is not mate-
rial. True recompense is satisfac-
tion. The man who works and is
■satisfied with his work — satisfied
just enough, not too much — is well
rewarded. Some hope for school
teachers.

An outdoor amphitheater would
be the best thing ever. If we had
one we might have more incentive to
bring a good company of players here
— say the Coburns. Then we might
have a "pageant" some time.

This being the Decennial year of
the school, and this being the one-
hundredth anniversary of the War of
1S12, there is a possibility of some-
this nice when the balmy days come
again.

"PEP" MEETING
Last Friday the football team
made their appearance in chapel, led
by a big bass drum and other rem-
nants of a band. The purpose was
to kindle the slumbering spirits of
the students into positive action. The
entire team was present and several
members made excellent speeches.
Mr. Howard Thompson gave a short-
hand prophecy of the game as it was
hoped it would progress. The audi-
torium echoed and re-echoed with
rah-rahs from masculine throats.

Miss Alice Morris, '11, is attend-
ing the University of Illinois this
year and is doing work in the Col-
lege of Science. She reports favora-
bly on the university courses but
expects to discontinue work there
after this year and engage in teach-
ing.

We haven't heard anything about
the Woman's building lately. The
Courier had hoped to see the foun-
dation well under way by Thanks-
giving. Perhaps we should learn to
"Labor and to Wait."

(Continued from pa^e 'j)

box got up and threw it into the fire.
This trivial and insignificant act was
deeply resented by the city marshal
who grabbed the boy by the arm and
attempted to make h;m take tr-
out of the fire, which was ma-
an impossible thing to do, and of no
consequence one way or the other. The
so-called arrest of this bey was dearly
unnecessary. There was no call for this
interference en the part of the officer.
His attitude naturally aroused the whole
body of students present. That, under
tiie trying circumstances, they exercis-
ed good judgment and self control, is
much to their credit. That the officer
in question should attempt by a state-
ment in the papers to make it appear
that this boy, who under the question-
ableproceedure was denied a chance to
proove in court his innocence, is greatly
to be regretted. This practically
amounts to conviction without trial.

It seems to us exceedingy
unfortunate that the da.ly

papers should have taken it fcr
granted in their write-ups that the
reason the boys did net break the law
by attacking the over-zealous officer
was due to their cowardice.

The writers of these articles were
evidently looking at the entire situa-
tion from a lower view point of citizen-
ship than our boys are taught to use
as a standard of conduct. The
teachers present at the time highly
commended the boys for the good
sense and self-restraint which they
exercised.

The statements in the daily papers
that no prosecution would follow, if the
boys in the boys in future behaved
themselves' beside the mark. First,
because there is no basis for a prose-
cution, no misdemeanor by any of the
students having been committed; and
second, the boys of the Normal School
will see to it in the future, as they
always have in the past, and as any
fair-minded citizen would agree that
they did upon this occasion see to it,
that their conduct is on the high
plane of good citizenship.

The official cartoonist for the
Courier indorses his work "Cat."
Who can guess the rest?

The Western Courie

SENIOR PLAY

The senior class and others will
present "As You Like It" fo- .he
annual dramatic event. Miss Davis,
Die director, has been engaged for
snme time in organizing the piny aud
choosing the characteis. The ftrsl
Shakespearian l lay ever played by
local talent here was "Twelfth
Night," given in 1909. The next
year "Midsummer Night's Dream"
was staged and was successful. Last
year the tragedy, "Hamlet," was
presented with exceptional success,
there being especially good material
in school for such a play. The .sft'air
last year was made a "Home Com-
ing" occasion, and probably the
same will be true of the event this
year. The cast of characters will be
announced very soon.

PROPOSITION VOTED DOWN

The proposition to unite the Ath-
letic and Oratorical Associations was
voted clown last Thursday, there being
forty-five votes for it and thirty
against. The constitution requires a
two-thirds majority to amend, so the
associations will continue independ-
ently as before. The proposition to
accept the Courier's twenty-fix e cent
rate to association members carried
by a vote of fifty-seven to fifteen. The
question at once arises if the last
proposition holds since the first one
has been rejected. Some are of the
opinion that the Courier should be
given to all Athletic members at the
reduced rate, and some hold that the
Oratorical members should have the
same privilege.

The Courier made the proposition
to the members provided the associa-
tions should combine. Every student
is a member of the Oratorical Asso-
ciation by virtue of being a member
of the school. If the Courier extends
its offer to the Oratorical members,
then the reduction will be given to
everyone in the school. However,
the proposition states that every
member shall be required to sub-
scribe before the reduced rate is giv-
en. Then there would be no need of
granting the privilege to the Athletic
members, because they would be in-
cluded in the other association. On
the other hand the fact that the pro-
position requires every member to
take advantage of the reduction,
would make it possible for one per-
son, by refusing to subscribe, to de-
prive the others of the advantage.
How this will work out in practice is
a matter of conjecture, but it is hop-

ed the aim the Courier had in mak- i
nig the proposition will be realized.
This aim was to get the school paper
into the hands of every student in
s hool.

PHYSICAL TRAINING DEMON-
STRATION

The girls of the junior class ; a
Physical Training, under the direc-
tion of Miss Lamkin, gave an inter-
esting demonstration in the gymna-
sium last Wednesday. Free hand
exercises, club swinging, folk
dances, wand exercises, and various
games made up the program which
was given to more than two hundred
spectators. After the program the
girls' Academic basketball tean>
played the Normal girls' team. The
game was exciting and both teams
were enthusiastically supported
from the balcony. Christie Dark
was the champion basket thrower,
she making sixteen of the twenty-
two points credited to the Academ-
ics. The Normal girls were closelv
guarded, receiving only one point.
Judging from the playing in th's
game the girls will have a winning
team this season.

The boys of the ninth grade are
using the gymnasium every time it
is not in use otherwise. They are
taking considerable interest in bas-
ketball and are planning to win
their share of the class champion-
ship games.

ORATORICAL CONTEST

The annual preliminary oratorical
contest will be held in the audito-
rium the evening of December 15.
The contest promises to be one
worth attending, as may be seen
from the list of orators. The win-
ners of this contest will represent
this school in the State Contest with
Old Normal in March.

Ross Stephens will deliver an ora
tion on "Universal Peace." George
Salisbury will speak on the subject,
"America's Birthright for a Mess of
Pottage," which is a plea for the
conservation of our mineral resourc-
es. "The Ministry of Leadership"
is Howard Thompson's subject and
considering his experience in public
speaking, he should make a very
good showing. Ed Norton will enter
the contest but his subject is not
known at this writing. Miss Emma
Callihan has something to say on the
much-needed "Journalistic Reform."
Miss Audre Smick has an oration
dealing with"Puritan vs. Modern

Life." Russell Browning has wi'i-

ten an oration with the unique title
"What's Next?"

ORATORY, DECLAMATION
AND DEBATE

The Oratorical Association has or-
ganized and planned a very extensive
program for the remainder of the
year. The inter-class contest will
take place in a short time, and the
State Inter-Normal contest will be
held here in March.

Besides this, it has been planned
to offer medals for declamation, ora-
tory and debate in the academy. Rep-
resentatives from the twelfth grade,
the eleventh, the tenth and the ninth
will hold a preliminary contest to
decide the winner in the respective
classes, and these winners will con-
test for a banner similar to the ath-
letic banner, which is now contested
for each spring.

This will not only awaken a strong
er interest in these lines, but will be
a means of training the younger stu-
dents for the annual literary so- iety
contests, and also for the State and
Inter-State Oratorical contests. It is
hoped this plan will work to the ■very
great advantage of the school and the
individuals who participate. Un-
doubtedly there will be sufficient in-
terest to keep the med-
als in demand, but it is
not certain that the student body in
general will attend these affairs. The
fate of the plan is in the hands of
the students. Will they support it or
not?

BUZZERS

Four more "buzzers" have been
installed by Mr. White and the jani-
tors. One in the print shop will take
the place of a much needed clock.
Another has been located in the saw-
room, so that the people who work
there may be warned of the change
of classes. A third is placed in the
bench room, and it is strong enough
to make itself heard above the racket
of the workers. The last one serves
two purposes. It is located back of
the stage in the auditorium, and will
not only notify the president of quit-
ting time, but will give chapel speak-
ers a fair warning.

The printshop has printed a neat
little booklet for Miss Davis' read-
ing department. It will be used to
supply her classes with certain lit-
erary sketches that are hard to
obtain otherwise.

The Wesi ern Couri en

FOOTBALL VICTORY

(Continued from page 53 )
were resorted to frequently. Stickle
carried the bull forty yards on a
tackle buck which made possible a
touchdown by Wilson. Hedding | '.
Normal 5.

In the second quarter Hedding ral-
lied and soon made three points on
a drop kick by Coleman. Also in
the latter part of the quarter Hea-
ding mad" a touchdown but failejl
to kick goal. Our boys played most-
ly_on the defensive during this quai-
which displayed the excellent
of Gill and Wetzel in tackling.
1 was injured in the latter
of the quarter and retired in
f;iWr of Siinonson at right tackle.
Kedding 8, Normal 5.

In the third quarter, Black made
an eighty-yard run through the en-
tire Hedding line for a touch-down.
Hue/ kicked goal. Hedding 8, Nor-
mal 11. Foster also made a tonch-
down on a fake place kick, but was
not allowed it because of a technical-
ity. Stickle also made good gains
during this quarter.

In the fourth quarter Dobson made
a place kick which was soon evened
up by a drop kick by Coleman of Hed-
ding. Hedding 11, Normal 14. Dar-
ing the last few minutes of play Scr-
enson made a touchdown, and Huey
kicked goal, making the final score.
Hedding 11, Normal 20. The lineup:
Hedding. Normal.

Braucht L.E Black

Hickle L.T Stickle

Housch L.G Stevens

Earel.Capt C Gill

Nelson R.G.Simonson, Smith

Hukill R.T. . .Wetzel, Cayt.

Simonson

Dunlap R.E Foster

Stewart L.H Sorensen

Giles R.H Wilson

Marchead F.B Dobson

Coleman Q.B Huey

Referee, Callihan; umpire, Switzer.
As a curtain raiser, a game was
played by Macomb High School vs.
Table Grove High School. These
teims were rather light, but played
a clean, snappy game throughout.
Millsom played a good game for Ma-
comb and was especially good in
punting. Several long runs were
made by Table Grove's half backs,
which, however, availed nothing.

The game ended with a score of
6-0 In favor of Macomb.

MICH SCHOOL CONFERENCE

(Continued from pagi 1
■ ion la bow quite complex in form.
There are of course general meetings

for discussion of question* oi
mon interest and for carrying on the
necessary business. The most impor-
tant part of the work, however, Is
done in section meetings. Then- i- a
separate section for each of t!i.
branches taught in the high school
one f( r administrative i ■ ■■
one for high school libraries, four
teen in all. In each section the a!
tempt is now to crystallizi
so far aa practicable, and to pro 1
uniformity in the various hi;di
schools of the sta'e, shaping
work of the smaller and \ 1
schools and raising the standard in
all. The work done in this way is
exceedingly helpful.

The Western Illinois Normal was
we!! represented in these section
meetings. Mr. Johnson gave in the
agricultural section a very interest-
ing talk, illustrated by lantern slides.
descriptive of what our school is do-
ing- for agricultural education. Mr.
Dickerson, in the history section,
read a paper on the teaching of civics,
and Miss Colby's name appeared on
the program of the househald sci-
ence section, but on account of ill-
ness she was unable to be present.
.Mr. McGilvrey, Mr. Hursh, and Miss
Atkinson were in attendance at the
meetings.

The Quarterly No. 12, which is de-
voted to the interest of history in
the Western Normal School, will be
printed on the Courier press, Mr.
Bishop doing the work. This w'll
be the second quarterly printed here,
and an effort is being made to make
it as mechanically perfect as is pos-
sible on a press such as the Courier
has.

As an English lesson last Friday the
ninth grade proof read the Courier.
Those who did the best work In the
first division were Nina Walters and
Ruby Kirkpatrick; in the second Mir-
iam Null and Ruby Mullen; in the third,
Wade Adams and John Kennet.

The Lincolns and Irvings have or-
ganized a boys' orchestra and a girls'
sextette, which will give musical se-
lections for both societies. Last week
the Lincolns gave a Thanksgiving
program. The debate was on the
question: Resolved, That Thanksgiv-

ot as Impoi
holiday as the Fourth ol i
affirmative v.os supported by Jay

Edit, the negative by Ruby Mullen.

'I he members of the eigl

manual trainii.g class are
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racks and she!

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Pa il White studeaffi

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Vj-s Grote's Co
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ilton's very interesting course cf 1
le ' res en Primarj Methods.

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JDER THE ACT OF CONORESS

FOOTBALL SEASON ENDED

A VERY SUCCESSFUL
YEAR OF FOOTBALL
IS JUST NOW OVER

Each Man on the Team Deserves

Honorable Mention and

a Word of Praise.

The Normal has fought a good
fight this fall, and a brief review of
the season, together with soir.e analy-
indivMua] players, should
rro-e fruitful and not descend to a
recital of excuses for defeats, or a
mere jubilee for victory. I leave to
others mere wont to mathematical
calculations to compute the percent-
ages of games lost and won, as well
as all other such nice computations
for the football score-board. If we
are careful in our judgment of men
and events for commendation, and
frank to criticise mistakes, we may
avoid all braggadocio and accumu-
late co-operative enthusiasm for fur-
ther school activities.

It is the general consensus of opin-
ion now that many students rather
than only a few should have access
to athletics fields and school para-
phernalia. Somtimes this is urged
along with the significant remark
that "we like to win our share of the
games, too, of course." These de-
mands are likely to be innocently
hinted whether or no there be the
best of equipment or one little ath-
letic field, one narrow racing course,
one gymnasium floor, any shower-
baths, any locker rooms, or grand-
stand or financial support, and
whether or no there be one man or a
half-dczen in charge. A team must
have some attention and direction
and some contests in order to keep it
alive. The Normal's entire football
paraphernalia has been used all fall.
Another season there will have to be
provided more suits for the boys, or
the boys encouraged to purchase
their own suits. Inter-class games
had to be checked until after the
season's schedule had been played
for lack of suits, balls and field room.
A ninth grade team was disappoint-
ed the second week out by lack of a

SEE THAI PLAY TO-
MORROW NIGHT!

ball and football pants. The two in-
ter-class games played resulted in
such an interchange of suits, in spite
of previous precaution, as well as the
missing of first and second team
practices, that all further class
games were barred until after
Thanksgiving, when we may expect
to enjoy the Academy-Normal game
and the annual inter-society scrim-
mage. The Athletic Association was
not blind to the needs of football*^
either, for they had expended over
$63, more or less wisely, before the
season opened.

The opening game with Kewanee
High School on Oct. 7 was full of
discomfort for Normalites. From
then until the Hedding game, the
problem was to develop a good field
manager. Inexperienced guards

made the position of quarterback
doubly trying. There seemed to be
no pivot to the squad, while every
man waited for a leader. The arri-
val of reinforcements in the persons
of Dobson and Sorensen brought new
confidence and allayed somewhat the
disappointment in the loss of Jerry
Standard of half-back fame. What-
ever may be said of Dobson's Indi-
vidual playing at fullback, this man,
probably more than any other,

(Continued on page 63)

ORATORICAL BOARD
PLANS FOR CONTESTS

The Preliminary Oratorical Con-
test Is Most Interesting Just
Now. — But Just Wait.

Last Wednesday evening, Nov. 29,
the oratorical board met and electeo
the following students as officers:
Pres., Ben West; vice pres., Har-
low Wyne; sec.-treas., Sarah Stock-
ing; sec.treas. of InterNormal Ass'n,
Hope McGillivray.

The board is formulating plans
Cor several enterprises during the
year which will no doubt be very in-
teresting. But that which perhaps
now interests us the most is the
coming preliminary contest. Aside
from the orations, which will be
good, there wil be several good mu-
sical numbers by the orchestra, the
Nevin quartet, and a double piano
number by Hiss Shamel, Miss Duns-
worth, Mrs. Johnson aud Mrs.
Hursh. One can see that these
numbers will be excellent, and on
the whole, the contest will be well
worth one's time and money.

SCHUYLER INSTITUTE

Several Familiar Faces Are Seen
Among the Teachers.

The Courier, having become
somewhat metropolitan in style, had
a representative at the Schuyler
County Teachers' Institute during va-
cation last week. Prominent on the
program were Miss Davis and Miss
Grote, while several familiar faces
were seen among the body of the
teachers, some of them being the
Misses Ruth Taylor, Dena Harney,
Maud VanAntwerp, Pearl Davis,
Beulah Angell, Sophia and Ada
Logsdon; also Messrs. Russell Fow-
ler, Ralph Swearingen, and Earl
Eyman. Most of thesi people are
now teaching, and as all Normal
students do, are making a success
of it.

The play. When? To-morrow night.

The Western Courier.
Hoard of Managers.

Senior Paul Leach

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Offieio Mr. McGilvrey

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASS'T EDITOR. THERON CHANEY
ILLUSTRATOR. . .VIRGIL CATLIN
Business Manager .. ..C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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A MATTER OF IDEALS

Have you ever thought of the im-
portance of a school paper? Is there
any necessity for a school publica-
tion? "What should a school paper
do? These are questions that are be-
coming important to students and fa-
culty alike. There are many papers
coming to our exchange shelves from
many kinds of schools and most of
them are first-class.

Certain criticisms have been made
and certain ideals set up in regard
to school papers by various people of
the school, and it is here that it is
hoped some definite conclusion as to
an Ideal school publication may be
reached.

First, is there any necessity? The
press has wielded a great influence
In general society and has created a
notable place of influence for Itself,
in school, as well as out of it, there
are conditions to be improved upon
and standards to be set up. There arc
always happenings of interest to be
recorded for the benefit of the stu-
dents In school, the alumni, and oth-
ers connected with it. Such happen-
ings may not be as important at the
time of their occurrence as they will
be later In the school's history. Then
there are jokes and trivial incidents
that amuse the readers, although
they are seldom of any lasting lm-

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Second, What should a school pa
per do? As above stated, it should
1 fiord the current events of the
school life; it should reflect the spirit
and attitude of the student body; It
should never fear to attack an exist-
ing evil, and it should lead in any
movement for the betterment of the
tchool community. Thes" Clings well
done make a paper a valuable, even
Indispenslble, factor n school life.

While the above will apply t".
sihools (n general, every type ol
school will support its individual
type of publication. High school pa-
pers are generally in a l..-jht?r vein,
although they do not fail to use
their power as moulders of public
opinion. College papers devote some
srace to local incidents, but quite of-
ten take up more serious questions.

The Normal School publications
take a stand quite alone. It seems
that Normal School papers feel that
they can, in a small way, spread the
spirit of education among the read-
ers. None devote their entire space
to jokes and trivial incident?.
Many take pride in recording edu-
cational progress in their communi-
ties.

Practically all take the serious
side of their mission and promote
it with vigor and no doubt with
success. The very business of a
Normal school should reflect seri-
ousness and good judgment in its
publication. If the Courier can bet-
ter existing conditions, lead in any
reform movement, record important
happenings, encourage school activ-
ities, mould healthy school opinion,
and spread the Normal School spirit,
it will prove its right to use up con-
siderable paper and take some time
from class routine.

Mr. W. D. Agnew, president of
Hedding College, in a letter to Mr.
Mci"iilvrey makes the folloving state-
ment:

"Our football team spoke in un-
usually high terms of the splendid re
ceqtion and treatment which they
received at the hands of your students
during their recent visit. I hope they
conducted themselves in a way to
merit it."

Miss Ursula Kennedy will give a
demonstration with the second and
third grade in music Friday after-
noon n the music room.

PERSONAL

Ifisg Helen ' bai < bach-

ing music and an a 1 11. in

a letter to Miss Uuekner she says Ehe
enjoys her music work and is im-
proving in the art line.

.Miss Helen Irvine, '10, is teaching
twenty-nine children at Keithsburg,
111. She reports progress and show*
disposition to earn the graduate di-
ploma. She sends 50 cents for the
Courier. -Hurray!

"Prof. Ross Nichol is spending his
vacation with home folks near Had-
l"y," says the Perry (111.) Citizen.

Mr. Fairfax Townley, '11, who
teaches at Wlntb.ro p Harbor, was
in the city over the holidays.

Mr. A. M. Roberts, '11, has as',:ci
for a memorial number of the Coj-
rh r. Mr. R b< rts is a

country school in art of

McDonougb county.

Mr. Harold Roberts, '11, is work-
ing in the lumber business at White-
hall, 111.

Glenn Carmer, who attended
school here several years a'- r o, was
seen in the Study Hall Monday.

.Miss Laura Hanson, who graduated
from here several years ago, and Miss
Irene Bassett, who graluated last
year, were attending the domestic
science section at Urbana.

Ward Taylor, 08, and Miss Alice
Morris, '11, were seen at Urbana by
our special correspondent.

Of course we are all sorry our
team didn't get a chance at that
Carthage College bunch but there is
some satisfaction in leaving a game
unplayed — we can always believe,
way down in our hearts, we could
beat them.

Today is Platonian day. The de-
bate will be interesting as it is
about a subject which is being much
discussed today among educators,
namely: Vocational Training.

If Miss Colby teaches the senior
girls to do fancy work, can Louise
Tuck ?

Miss Dunsworth will give barca-
rolles this week and nocturnes next
at the chapel exercises. Friday the
tenth grade music class will give a
chapel program consisting of songs
studied during the term.

Everybody seems to be quite hap-
py after the visits at home.

The Western Courier

FOOTBALL SEASON ENDED

(Continued from page 61)
brought a spirit of confidence into
the cimp. Accidents to Black, Stickle,
Smith, and Huey, at various times,
crippled, the machine work of the
squad, while parental objections kept
Wyne and the Watsons, and other
strong men out of the game. A slow
start, lack of an experienced quar-
terback, the inexperience of nearly
every man in his respective position,
coupled with the fact that several in-
juries befell certain players, it is ex-
ceedingly gratifying to close the
schedule by a succession f three hard-
fought and victorious games, when
there were two men ready for each
position and every man in first-class
condition.

Credit is due to so many that it
would be laborious to mention all.
Prof. DickeiTon gave excellent sug-
gestions from his private office, and
wherever pressure of work permit-
ted, h'istled the squad through prac-
tice of carrying the ball, opening the
line, line holding, etc, besides serv-
ing us generously and masterfully as
referee or umpire. Manager Black
has proved himself proficient in all
departments of the office to which
the board of control elected him. 1
have seldom seen his equal among
student managers, and I would not
seek a better. Captain Wetzel has
led in football tactics and sportsman-
ship. He inculcated the idea of im-
provement by the hard work plan,
and showed that he could take
own medicine. Ralph Switzer lent
his services as official and gave a
sanitary moral support. Yellmas-
ters, advertising managers, members
of the band and their drill mistress,
the second team and the class teams,
which, for unselfish motives played
the game, have aroused the grati-
tude of the football men, for whom
I regard these "thank yous." Mark
my word, the football men will in
turn be among the more loyal sup-
porters of the Normal in all her
praiseworthy activities.

Personal

Black, manager. Injuries re-
ceived when preparing a dummy
tackling, kept Black on the side
lines during the early part of the
fall. His reappearance at left end
with his usual good nature and a
little extra speed was highly satis-
factory to "all hands." Contrary to
expectations, Black did some of
his best playing in carrying the ball
around right end, where he pulled

off not a few long runs in no poor
time in spite of his long stride. His
secret lay in keening close to inter-
ference and using judgment for
finding an pening, as well as for
performing all duties of an end
man. He played a consistent game
en defense and always had the nec-
essary "ginger." As a twelfth
grade man of 132 pounds weight, he
will be heartily welcomed another
fall.

Dohson, full back, says he played
his last game of football on that
r. emorable day he helped whip Hed-
ging College. The big fellow
s 'owed extraordinary speed to 1 " an
lX3-pound man, both in starting and
in running interference. His capabili-
ties were made use of to the full by
sending the man with the ball
through the line close on Dobson's
heels. His attack was unusually ef-
fective and his good humor inspiring
to teammates. As a punter he was no
sluggard and his kickoffs were in-
variably strong and accurate.
He broke up the short passes of op-
posing teams in clever style and his
bigness behind the line on defense
had a remarkably salutary effect on
friend and foe. His unimpeachable
conduct on the field and his "growl,"
which was just enough to add spice
to a game, have won for him a place
in the hearts of all good football
"fans." He has had three years of
football fun.

Foster at right end surpassed the
right end in weight one pound and
in age one year. "Iky" is not un-
known in football circles, but it was
not until the very last game that he
came back to tickle the spectators
with his old-time brilliance in cross-
gridiron sprints with the little pig-
skin. Always eager for the thick of
the fray, alert, business-like, and
fearless, Foster could ever be
trusted to fill the end position
creditably. Whenever an occasion
demanded he could meet and occa-
sionally surpass his reputation for a
clear head and fleet foot. He sel-
dom got a bruise. He was always a
good "team" man. He will be
missed next year from the football
team and the senior class.

Gill, center, with over a year's
experience, behind him and a tenth
grader of 137 pounds weight, is like-
ly to attain considerable reputation
as a football player in spite of his
unassuming modesty. Lewis was
usually first man out and not among
the first to quit practice. He prob-
ably said the least of any man on
the squad, and for the center posi-

tion, especially on offense, that
quality was a virtue. His passes
were true to an admirable degree
and he followed the ball consistently
and untiringly. It was as a defensive
smasher that Gill came into promi-
nence. Indeed, in that capacity he
deserves credit for a full share in
placing the score to Normal credit
in each of the last three games. But
at center his work was vitally im-
portant, although little noticed. The
boys will not allow Gill to forget to
enter school next September.

Huey played quarter-back "like a
fiend" in the Galesburg and Hedding
games. Huey first assumed respon-
sibility for running the eleven in
the Augusta game in which he par-
ticipated but two minutes. Respon-
sibility seems to have made the man
and the team, too. As quarter-back
he won the confidence of teammates
who had put little trust in him at
end, tackle or half back. He showed
considerable signs of generalship
and had the ability to pull off not a
few stunts himself by way of induce-
ments to his men. His specialty ap-
peared to be running back punts
from the safety position, in per-
forming which important duty he
was wont to twist himself through
a good many opponents. He was
quite adept at the forward pass and
short accurate kicking and could be
used for drop kicking or goal kick-
ing. His greatest fault lay in do-
ing too much and it was probably
due mostly to good fortune that he
came to the climax of his playing
at the end instead of at the middle
of the season. Huey probably sur-
passed the highest expectations of
his own men and of opposing teams,
and he is "booked" for phenomenal
work next fall.

Hoar showed signs of football in-
telligence first in the Augusta game,
when, as captain of the second
team playing at left end, he carried
his team to easy victory. For a first
year man he is worthy of commenda-
tion. He is a good tackier and a
quick thinker, and needs only expe-
rience to put him into the fast class.

Leach was too good a utility man
to get a permanent job. Always
willing to fill in wherever placed,
Leach was shifted from tackle to
guard, and from guard to half back.
For this latter place he was proba-
bly best qualified, being swift of foot
and a good man at running through
a broken field. Leach did some
good work at the position of guard
in several games, particularly at de-
fensive work.

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Simonson improved consistently
throughout the season, and for his
playing and other deeds, might well
lay claim to special popularity. His
best work was done in breaking
through an opponent's line and spoil-
ing nicely laid plans. He was alter-
nated at tackle and guard positions,
and was able to play on either side
of the line with characteristic ease.
He kept himself in good condition all
season and never needed a bandage
or a pad. Simonson is the type of
man in the line beside whom it is a
pleasure to work. He does his full
share and keeps everlastingly at it
with head and strength.

Stickle leaves the 12th grade this
year. His weight and high school
football experience served him well
at the tackle positon, where he could
be depended upon to tear down the
opposing offense and to steadily ad-
vance the ball. He was the right
man in the right place, most particu-
larly in the Hedding game, but his
services at tackle invariaby counted
well for the Normal. His love of
the gridiron scrimmage was not one
whit slackened by an accident which
kept him out of the mid-season
games. He will be missed another
year.

Stevens was the shifty man, al-
ready experienced in the ways of
high school football. Either at
guard, end or quarter, or fullback,
Stevens was able to fulfill the high-
est expectations of those familiar
with the game. Circumstances
threw him into the position of left
guard, where his quickness in charg-
ing made him a hard opponent, but
his fitness for the back field was
most marked. Stevens was an ag-
gressive player always, and must be
classed among those who create ha-
voc with the opposing team's line
and interference. We venture to
predict great things for Stevens an-
other year.

Sorensen plajed football with the
same vim which characterized him
everywhere. At left half and at
right smashing end, his speed and
ingenuity told for the Normal eleven.
An extra-clever exhibition of quick
wit and nerve was displayed by Sor-
ensen at smashing end in the Gales-
burg and Hedding games, when the
neatest plays of visiting teams were
outguessed and outrun. Sorensen's
play was always square and whole-
hearted. The Normal need ask for
no more reliable half-back.

Smith suffered from a sprained
ankle during the early fall,
but got back for a part

of the later games, when he
creditably acquitted himself at
guard's position. Smith might de-
velop into first caliber if left at the
same position another season, as his
strength and nerve are of the right
Stuff. He leaves the twelfth
this year.

Wet c) retained the con
lis men and made a goo 1 captain.
His transfer from guard to right
tackle turned out advantageously.
His skill at blocking and at opening
a vide hole 'or the backs was de-
lightful to behold. \U charged low
and with force and kept his endur-
ance a ho e the average. Quarter-
back Huey found right tackle a sure
ground-gainer in the tackle around
play. As < a; tain he showed an ad-
mirable self-control and neither vic-
tory or de f eat upset him. Fven For-
tune smiled upon him, for he won
every toss throughout the season.
The Captain's services in connection
with football will be wanted next
year, although he will have become
a senior.

Wilson at half-back and smash-
ing center was a "host." Of solid
build, excellent proportion, and sur-
prisingly agile, he was amply suited
for the line-bucking and line back-
ing he so faithfully perfcrmed. The
grandstand cheered him most when
he was following Dobson for line-
smashing. His h-ild of the ball was
sure and his interference telling.
Wilson's objections to the opponent's
gaining an inch, were stubbornly-
backed up by ferocious tackling
close to the scrimmage line. Oppo-
nents always found him a tough
fighter and never off the job.

No credits will be given Monday
for last term's work. The "Hunk-
ers" and "conditioners" will receive
dainty little blue slips, which it is
hoped will remind them of ill spent
hours. The credits will be given to
those who have earned them, one
week from Monday. Warning: Don't
come into the study hall Monday.

Miss Gladys Fishleigh, our first
grade teacher, spent her short vaca-
tion in Chicago listening to grand
opera, which she very enthusiastical-
ly says was worth the whole trip to
the city, even if she had not seen the
play "Everyman." This play is mak-
ing a great impression on theater-
goers, and Miss Fishleigh reports it
as being exceptional.

Turkeys' revenge — indigestion.

Kix D4

have b

rfous departments. They will re-
place some older and well-worn r,-.a-
chines.

■
being made in the .Mar:
-!:o;i. That is, the frame w.r>. e vA

are being pi |
works. V.'i.

will write it up and thei ■
proud of itself.

Did you flunk this quartern
Even 7/ you don t /v
had belli r go (o lite play in die
audit, rutin to morrow night.

Dot:* miss the play Ichtwn •

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kR. 3. I »oa.

kCT OF CONDRESi

A REMINDER OF TO-MORROW NIGHT.

A QUIET LITTLE DINNER ORATORICAL CONTEST FOOTBALL NEXT YEAR

Play Given by Galesburg High

School Dramatic Club Was

Much Enjoyed by All.

The Dramatic Club of the Gales-
burg High School presented the core-
ely "A Quiet Little Dinner," in the
auditorium Friday night. The play
was bro-.ight here by the senior class,
and was the first of a series of enter-
tainments to be given for the bene-
fit of the year book.

I i'lian Mayhew, a sprightly young
lady, is visiting her married sister
Mrs. Pembrooke. A very superannu
ated v.idowed cousin, noted for h?r
bossing qualities, announces an un-
expected visit to the Pembrooke
home. Previous to the visit, howev-
er, this cousin has presented the
Pembrooke's v Hh a handcome sum
of money to be used in keeping a
cook and waitress. Instead, Mr.
Pembrookes with a handsome sum
it. Upon arrival of the cousin the
sisters plan a way to disguise Miss
Lillian as the waitress. At
this point Richard Grant, the fiancee
al Miss Lillian, also an old friend
of Pembrooke, arrives at the Pem-
brooke home and is discovered by
Mrs. Clarabelle Mayhew-Tucker, toe
cousin above mentioned, who mis-
takes him for a peddler and comes
very near buying him out, even to
his engagement ring. To conce-il
the identity of the ring he has to
tell the cousin it is a present from
a very dear friend. Miss Lillian,
now in the costume of a waitress,
hears her finance's explanation in re-
gard to the ring and takes it for

(Continued on page 67)

Six Good Orations Will Be Deliv-
ered in the Preliminary
Oratorical Contest.

Tomorrow is the date set for the
first important event of the year in the
oratorical 'ine. TheAnnual Prelimi-
nary Contest will be held, some of it
having been mentioned in last week's
issue. If is need'^-s to say that it
will be good, but the point, that the
success of the contest depends rr,u:h
on the student's support, cannot be
emphasized too strongly. In this
contest will be seven good orations, al!
of which are about subjects of present
day interest. Perhaps it would add
some interest to give a short resume
of the contestants and their respective
productions.

George Salisbury has never before
been in the contest, although he has
had some experience in that he repre-
sented the Ernersonians in the Inter-
Society contest last May. His oration
"America's Birthright for a Mess of
Pottage", is the same as the one giv-
en last May, and will, no doubt, be de-
livered much better at this time,

The oration "Municipal Government"
will be delivered by Ed. Norton, Jr.
Altha he is an entirely new man in
the contest, his oration on such an
up-to-date subject should make a
very creditable showing.

Miss Audre Smick enters the contest

(Continued on page 67)

The Outlook for the Season
1912 Is Most Favorable.
Watch Us Win.

The 1911 football squad met ani
elected Simon Simonson cartaln of
next year's aggregation. In a per-
sonal interview Mr. Simonson said:
"There is no reason why this 3 liool
cannot have as strong a team as any
normal school in the Central West."

There will be several of this yeir's
stars back for the work next autumn.
Among these are named Wetzel, this
season's efficient captain, Bla^k, Gill,
Pimonson, Stevens, R. Wilson, and
Fluey. It is rumored "Curley" Wil-
son and Poss \icho! will be ready

for the lineup npxf

"timber. How-

ever, there are several strong men
who Mill develop into first-class ma-
terial. In this connection, the names
of Bennett, the Watsons, Garrison,
Smith, George Gill, and Hoar.

When questioned regarding th"?
probable schedule, the captain said
he favored playing several colleges
and dropping some of the smalls
high schools that we quite often de-
feat. In the conversation he sug-
gested Carthage, Hedding, and Illi-
nois College as desirable opponents.
His idea is to match more with the
Normal schools. The Platteville
Normal school would be very desir-
able and the trip would undoubted-
ly be valuable to the team. Some
one or two of the Illinois Normal
schools should be taken on. Charles-
ton, DeKalb, or Carbondale are wor-
thy of our best efforts.. Among the
neighboring high schools, Monmouth,

)Continued on page 67)

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Board of Managers.

Senior Paul Leach

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Viet, r Wood

Tenth Grade Clareace Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Map*

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Officio Mr. McGilvrey

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EDITORIAL

How thirsty humanity is to learn
all about crime. Every daily paper
devotes a large amount of space to
murders and thefts. Very little is
said of what the good people do.
Readers do not care for such com-
monplace happenings. Of course it
wouldn't matter much if only the old
people read these articles, but the
young people are at their mercy.

Now there is a certain instinct of
human nature that must be explained
before one can fully appreciate the
dangers of newspaper villiany.

A person becomes what he thinks
about. Young people have very
vivid imaginations. They succumb
to suggestions. They think about
the things they see flared at them
in black-faced type. Knowing this,
den't you think the newspapers are
real greedy to take advantage of
these instincts, always in youth, and
often in age?

For a great many years the news-
papers have been a great factor in
the life of the nation. In fact, the
printed page has so long been
a mystery to the people that
they have been prone to believe
everything that appeared in print.
The press, in many instances, has
dealt in glaring falsehoods without

Western < oui

many readers surmising the untruth
of the statements. Of late people
are beginning to realize that news-
papers are quite as apt to get things
wrong as is the proverbial village
go.=sip.

This fact Is taken from the
its ability to mould public opinion.
In forming opinions based on news-
paper comment, people make it a
rule to allow a wide margin for ex-
aggeration. The papers, many of
them, have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" so
long that people do not respond.
Some day they wfll want to cry
"Wolf! Wolf" in earnest, then they
will hear nothing but loud silence.

M:ss Shamel's father died last Friday
from injuries received in a fall. Mr.
Shamel was at one time a contractor
aud was examining a house in refer-
ence to repairs. While on the rocf
he was stricken with apoplexy, this
causing the fall His shoulder
was broken and the brain suffered
concussion. He lived about three
days after the accident.

When a man fails under very ad-
verse circumstances we say "Can't
blame him" but when a man succeeds
under the same difficulties we shout,
"What a Hero!"

A MYSTERY
In the envelope containing "The
Perhaps" from Dallas City there was
enclosed a post card with a view of the
Steamer Saint Paul at the Dallas
landing. The card was addressed to
Miss Adeline Goodrich, Minonk, I 111 —
inois. The writer was asking that the
boy deliver a quart of miik early
Monday evening. The Courier has
forwarded the card to the proper per-
son with the hope that the lady will
receive the milk in time for the week-
ly churning. How the card found its
way into the "Perhaps" envelope is a
mystery.

JAPANESE EXHIBIT

Mr. Kusama, a native of Japan,
and now a student in the University of
Wisconsin was here last Tuesday
displaying a very artistic collection of
old Japanese block prints. He also
had quite an assortment of Japanese

fancy work which was very p!e;
In connection with the art ».

had a number of small modern paint-J
ings made in Japan. Th-i :.e were a
center of attraction to U

SChool

a d the I
se art.

A DAY OF FISHING

The Courier learned from Mr. Keef- ■
er that he intended a , day

for fishing in Lake Ruin this Autumn,
but the water froze before the day waa
designated. It was his plan to have!
one or more representatives from each
class try their angling skill in a fishing
contest. We are sorry that this event
did not take place for surely Isaac Wal-
ton would be overjoyed cou'd he look
down from fisherman's heaven and see
the string of black bass the Normal--
ites wonld have carried home. Spring
is coming. Let's remind Mr. Keefer.

OPEN COUNTRY NO. 2

Open Country Club Xo. 2 was or-
ganized Dec. 6, 1911. The purpose
of this club is to help the students
who intend to teach in the country
toward standardizing the country
schools.

The following officers were elect-
ed:

Miss Mamie E. Thomson, pru-
dent.

Miss Florence E. Legere, vice pres-
ident.

Miss Ethel Landis, secretary.

Mr. Guy Fetch, treasurer.

Miss Nannie Allison, representa-
tive for the Courier.

Miss Grace Harmon, representa-
tive for the Sequel.

All students wishing the benefit
of this club may learn the particu-
lars from Miss Thompson.

The fifth and sixth grades gave a
public demonstration last Wednesday
in the gymnasium to the public. Those
who saw the exercises say it was well
done. Thursday these same grades
gave a tea to the mothers. Last week
completed their course in domestic
science so this was done to show
pupils and mothers the value of such
a course.

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A QUIET LITTLE DINNER

(Continued from page 65)
granted he is telling the truth. She
turns a cold shoulder to Mr. Grant,
who finds hi3 attempts to explain fu
tile.

Mrs. Mayhew-Tucl cr's dog be-
comes ill. Mr. Pembrooke, having
become dazed by the strange actions
of his friend, and also h:s wife and
r-iii-law, is only too glad to es-
cape with Grant in quest of a dog
doctor. The dog Is saved and th-i
two men earn the everlasting goou-
will of the owner.

From this point the plot begins lo
unravel. The loves arrange mat-
ters, the cousin informs the Peni-
brcokes she must lenve for another
city, and the Pembrooke home onc*i
more takes on a home-like appear-
ance.

The part of Lillian Mayhew was
well studied by Miss Dora Telford.
Her voice was well suited to h°r
lines as waitress and her action sup-
ported the character well. Miss
Jeannette Taggart as Mrs. Pem-
brooke did well in her rather sthain-
ir.g part. Mrs. Clarabelle Mayhew-
Tucker was represented by Miss Ruth
Latimer, whose acting was character-
istic of a self-elected househald man-
ager. DeLoss Lotts, playing the part
of Richard Grant, was highly com-
plimented on his work. Sam Ha/-
rington was well suited to the char-
acter of James Pembrooke and did
clever acting throughout the play.

The company was conducted by the
dramatic teacher in the high school,
Miss Reigle. They seemed to be
favorably impressed with the treat-
ment received, and they were cer-
tainly a very congenial group.

FOOTBALL NEXT YEAR

(Continued from page 65)
Kewanee, or Quincy would give our
team good games.

Taking a general view of the situ-
ation, it seems quite evident that a
successful team will be put on the
field. The spirit of the captain will
: he appreciated from his following re-
mark: "What's the use of playing
teams we can always defeat?"

The Courier predicts the football
team will grow as the school itself is
now growing.

ORATORICAL CONTEST

(Continued from page 65)
with the oration, "Conservaton of
"orests." This is a subject which is

being much discussed now among
statesmen and should bo interesting.

"Universal Peace " is the subject
of an oration to be delivered by Ross
Stevens. He has never appeared on the
Norma! sta^e before but ha 3 represent-
ed the localhigh school quite creditably.
He is expected by iomc to "sh„w the
rest of 'em up".

Howard Thompson won second
place in last year's preliminary, and
is considered a dangerous contestant.
He has wide experience in oratory
having appeared in several contests.
He will deliver his oration of last year,
"The Ministry of Leadership".

Russel Browning was also in last
year's contest. His oration, "What
Next", deals with the immigration
problem. Having given an idea of
what to expect, the best advice the
Courier can give is: don't miss the
contest tomorrow night.

COURIER BOARD OF CON-
TROL

The Courier Board of Control held
its first meeting of the year last week.
A great deal of important business
was transacted but the thing of most
importance to the student bedy was a
motion made and carried to the effect
that any organization as a whole,
could have the Courier at the rate of
twenty five cents per subscription pro-
vided all the members of the organi-
zation became subscribers. The coard
defined an organization as any body of
students, class, society, club or
association, organized with a name,
and having the regular officers.

Now the Courier is not compelled
to make this reduction in order to keep
alive nor did we think the paper would
be cheapened to the extent of a quar-
ter, for it will still be worth more than
fifty cent a year . The only thought of
the board in reducing th« price by on*
half, was to place the paper within the
1 each of every student in the school.

Now, won't you please, quit borrow-
ing your neighbor's Courier, save a
dime every week until New Year's
and come back with a New Year's
resolution to increase your school spirit
one hundredjper cent by becoming a

subscriber to the best little school pa-
per in the Military Tract?

L. W

COMING DOWN

"What a great fire a little matter
khidleth?" Aiso \, i'.ii. great ex-
citement a little water maketh.
Thursday afternoon, 1.- two girls
v.e.e leaving the se o.id floor cloak
J rcom for the first il or by the east
1 stairway, they suddeu'iy felt a damp-
I ne:-.s on their heads. Everybody with-
j in seeing distance flocked to the spot
and looked for more water. Evi-
dently the bystanders expected to
see a deluge, but they were disap-
pointed. Roy Beckelhymer, assist-
ant jaa : tor, had just fallen down the
third story stairs with a bucket of
water.

PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATION

Friday evening, December 8, the
Academic girls gave an exhibition of
physical training methods in the gym-
nasium. The program consisted of
marching, free hand exercises, and
folk dances. It was very interesting
as every number was given with cor-
rectness and precision. Much credit is
due Miss Lamkin, who has had charge
of the class and has drilled them in
the various numbers.

Music was furnished by the orches-
tra, which was enjoyed by the large
number present.

After the drills a basket-ball game
was played by the Academic girls vs.
a team selected from the Ninth Grade
and Junior Classes. The game was
interesting thruout, the teams being
very evenly matched. Altho the score
was not obtained, it is sufficient to say
that it was very close.

Local Trustee Keefer was showing
a group of bankers over the building
one day last week. Some one said
they were residents of Monmouth.

Certain Seniors and a few scat-
tered Juniors are often seen entering
certain first floor rooms with the most
dignified expressions. Wonder what
they are up to?

If the color of Mr. Hursh's hair is
strawberry blonde, is Henry Black?

The Western Courier

BOYS' BANQUET

On December 21 is to occur the
"Boys' Banquet," when faculty boys
and student men will gather around
the festive board together and do honor
to the Normal, it's football team and
jt's various student activitits. This
annual festivity Is proving popular and
we may predict that no man of the
school will miss the opportunity this
y«ar. A committe, consisting of four
members of the faculty and one stu-
dent from each of the several classes,
has the matter in charge and tickets
will be placed on sale soon.

MOVING PICTURES

Ten excellent pictures were re-
ceived last Thursday from the A. W.
Elson Co. of Boston. The group
is n:ade up of "Cicero's Oration
Against Cataline," "Westminst r Ab-
bey," Flight of Night," "Angel and
Lute," "Age of Innocence," "Alice
Freeman Palmer Memorial," "Pot of
Basil," "German Farmyard," and
"Song of the Lark." These were
displayed in the office for general
inspection but they are soon to be
put in frames and hung in the differ-
ent rooms. Several wi?l not find a
permanent location but will be
moved from room to room. This
will cause them to be noticed more
and will make them of more benefit
to the students and facu'Ity. Other
pictures will remain in certain rooms
and be considered permanent deco-
rations.

The Trustees are to be thanked
for their generosity in providing
thes fine ornaments for the building
and evidently they realize the edu-
cative value of art productions.

The manual training force is mak-
ing three tables for the benefit of the
clay^modeling class. These tables
will have concrete tops about two
and one-half inches thick. A smooth
finish will be made on the upper sur-
face so that the clay will handle
easily.

"Shorty" Felters has provided the
Courier folding table with some new
oilcloth .

The Chalk Plate Machine is work-
ing nicely .

TENTH GRADE Did

I dreamed a dream the other night,
That filled my heart with ale.

In all my life no scene so bright,
Has been my lot to see.

Methought a golden light streamed
down

Upon a happy throng.
On snowy robes and golden gown

On students old and strong.

Then upward, as they pushed their
way,

Along the marble stairs,
I saw that all were students gay.

And banished were their cares.

There were Juniors there and Seni-
ors stern,
And Academics blest.
But as I looked, Lo! I beheld —
The Tenth grade led the rest.

— M. E.

TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

Father of Waters,
By thy clear stream
Sadly I ponder,
Idly I dream.
Watching thy billows
That like the fleet years
Never turn backward
In sorrow nor tears.

Father of Waters,
Could I, like thee,
Bury my sorrow
In yon distant sea,
Could I forget
The ache and the pain,
Then would the hours
Flow smoothly again.

On, Mississippi,
Roll, ever roll,
On to the ocean,
Ever thy goal.
Bury thy trouble
Deep in thy grave.
Cover it over
With silvery wave.

— ME.

When almost everything is discov-
ered that there is to be discovered
and when almost everything is invent-
ed that there is to be invented, there
will be so much that the teachers will
not try to teach the pupils any great a-
mount of it but thsy will teach them
how to learn it.

"As You Like It" rehearsals began
Monday evening and will continue for
some time two times a week.

Miss Mary Williams, '11, was visit-
ing the school Monday.

N. — "I don't like white shirts,
they fade so fast."

HOW TO SHARPEN TCGLS
Q. Tell me ho * rou wi

pi ine bit, or chisel.
A. No. l. "A plane on
st( ne and should be held flat on tlM
stone, and sharpen t .*: the feather

is raised an the other side, tnea
should be turned and shar]
little en the other side."

A. No. 2. — To sharpen a p
or chisel, hold the blade a lit '.<_•
slanting on an oil stone and scrap it
until it has a kind of feathery edge."

A. No. 3. — "A plane bit is .sharp-
ened on a grindstone; it is sharp-
ened until it is sharp and the knicks
are taken out. It is then rubbed
with oil to take off the feather edge,
edge."

If an elephant is ten feet tall, :'s
Anna Long?

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roL. IX, No. XIX

>vn, Illinois, Dec. 21, 1911.

Cory t; Cents

OF M ARC >

ATTENDED INAUGU-
RATION EXERCISES

Vliss Grote Attended the Inaugu-
ration of Hedding's New
President.

Miss Grote attended the inaugura-
io.'! of the nev/ presi ler.t of Heddh'g
College. Dr. Walter D. Agnew, grad-
uated from the Augusta High school
vhile she was superintendent of schools
)f that little city, and at his requert,
ihe was sent to represent the faculty
jf our school, taking with her the greet-
ings of the W. I S. N. S. to Hedding
College.

She reports an interesting and im-
jressive occasion, an able inaugural
address, an inspiring address by Bishop
Anderson of Chattanooga, and an en-
ihusias-tic people.

Miss Grote was favorably impressed
ji'ith Hedding and congratulates it on
securing such a strong and able man
: or president and Dr. Agnew on his op-
portunity in the educational world.

Hayes Fuhr, a last year's graduate,
rho is now teaching in Culver Military
Academy of Culver, Indiana, has been
greeting old friends in the Normal
halls this week.

Harold McKee, a junior last year
aut now attending Lombard College
vas seen around the halls Monday.

Clint Erwin, a student of Monmouth
College, was a visitor Monday.

Mr. McGilvrey went to Ohio ytster-
day where he will remain during the
holidays.

Before the ink is hardly dry on this
issue, the corridors will resound with
the rattle of dishes and the patter of
feet. Tonight is the great night for the
boys' banquet.

STEVENS WINS

FIRST PLACE

Six Orations Were Delivered.
Thompson Wins Second and
Salisbury. Third.

The annual preliminary Orat-
orical Contest was held in the Audi-
torium last Friday evening. Altho
orators were confronted by a small aud-
ience they did their work in a very
enthusiatic manner.
The first speaker, Mr. Howard Thom-
pson with "The Ministry of Leader-
ship", delivered his oration very well.
The thought of his discourse is suggest-
ed by it's title. Mr. Thompson used the
the same subject last year but it was
much improved upon and won consid-
erable favor with the audience.

Mr. Ed. Norton delivered an oration
on the very vital subject, "American
City Government." In this he set forth
the disadvantages of the older form of
municipal control and with equal force
explained the newer form of Commis-
sion Government. His delivery wa s
forceful and showed that he was intense
ly interested in his subject.

The only lady in the group of speak-
ers was Miss Audre Smick with "The
Conservation of Our Forests" as her
subject. This oration was well thought
(Continued on pagt 71)

CONTEST FOR

SCHOOL PAPERS

The Courier Will Conduct a Con-
test to Stimulate School Pa-
pers to Greater Activity.

The Western Courier belieTes no
individual or institution achieves
such a degree of excellence as to be
above chances of improvement. It
also believes that no school paper,
however well edited, ever reaches
absolute perfection. There is in
school life, as well as general life, a
place for a student publication, and
we hope it is fast becoming impera-
tire to the best management of any
high school that a student papar be
published. We believe the stude.it
high school publications of this sec-
tion of the country are wielding an
influence, but we further believe they
can be made to serve a larger pur-
pose. Some plan should be put on
foot whereby the student publica-
tions of this -egion might have the
opportunity to compare themselves
and be compared. In order to do this
the Western Courier will conduct a
contest that will, in a measure, make
such an opportunity. Any high
school paper who desires may enter
this. The rules, subject to slight
modifications, are given below:

The publications shall be divided
into two classes. Class A shall in-
clude all weekly papers, and Class B
all monthly papers.

The weekly publication that is giv-
en first rank shall be awarded first
prize in Class A. In this class the
contest will open with the issue
printed during the second week in
January, and shall continue for five
successire weeks.

The monthly publications shall be
judged on the anuary and February
issues, and the one recemng the
highest rank shall receire first prize
in Class B.

Basis of Comparison.

The papers shall be Judged on two
principal features, Content and
Makeup.

The content of the paper shall be
divided into three classes, namely:

(Continued on pagt 71)

The Western Courier.
Board of Managers.

Senior Paul Leach

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Offlcio Mr. McGilvrey

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASS'T EDITOR. THERON CHAXEY
ILLUSTRATOR... VIRGIL CATLIN

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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EDITORIAL

The contest referred to on an-
other page is but an initial step
toward the improvement of the stu-
dent publications in this region. Student
papers are taking an active part in
school life and no doubt they can do
much more. The Courier believes this
contest will set a higher standard for
the papers and after the decision has
been made they will continue to live
up to this standard. It will give edi-
tors a chance to realize their possibil-
ities. It will create an interest in each
school for the papers and will thereby
increase the subscriptions and interest
of every paper that enters. Surely no
one can doubt that benefit will be de-
rived and it Is hoped all the high
school papers will take advantage of
this.

While we are talking of art exhibits
and of hanging this picture in that
room and this one in another room,
has any one stopped to think that the
Courier office would be a gcod place
to hang some picture? Has any one
stopped to think that the Courier press-

The Western Courier

man and his force enjoy looking at
pictures as well as gazing all day long
on bare walls, paper cupboards, type-
cases and so forth? Has any one stop-
ped to think of this?

A CHRISTMAS GIFT

The biting wind rattled the leaves
and bits of paper along the pavement
and then the alleys. The frosty silence
in the air and the dancing twinkle of
the stars would lead one to believe it
was the night before Christmas. All
humanity slumbered. Two figures clad
in flowing white robes fleeted along
that street of beautiful mansions as
tho they were borne on the tide of the
wind. From their eager and inquiring
faces one might easily have guessed
they were hunting some and were dis-
appointed. They dashed from the side
walk across a lawn of dead grass and
approached a magnificent mansion.
One climbed upon the wide stone ledge
of the window and shading his eyes
with his hand, peered thru the glass.
There lay a man asleep. His features
were not relaxed as are the faces of
the innocent when they sleep. The
deep lines on the forehead, around the
mouth, and radiating from the eyelids
indicated him to be a man of strenuous
activity. Barely had the onlooker had
time to see these things before the
sleeper moved and groaned. Then he
muttered something but only these
words in broken connection were heard,
"Poor security—, damned papers—,
banked a thousand anyhow".

No more was said, the form disap-
peared from the window and joining its
comrade darted down the lawn and on-
to the walk. They did not stop again
on this fine street. They wander-

ed away into the poor section. There
they saw miserable shacks but still not
a human being came to their notice.
They caught a gleam of a light ahead
and soon saw a dark figure turn into
the street from behind them. They
stepped to one side and were passed
unnoticed but they saw at a glance it
was a bowed women. An old shawl
thrown over her head was held tightly
together under her chin by an old

fashioned bres:,t pin, thus leavin
rest of it to cover the nai
ders. In her hand she carried s
thing that gleamed just enoujh in the
starlight to identify it as a little tin
pail. Her face was haggard, to be cure
but u.ider the wrinkles, one could see
a wealth of kindness there, and a
mild and healing sympathy. She
paused at the door of the lighted
house or rather hut, opened the door
and closed it behind her. Quickly sped
the two wanderers to the window. One
brushed the grime from the glass and
looked in. What a forlorn room it was!
A dirty little cook stove in one corner,
a rickety table near it, two goods box-
es, and a sort of couch was all that de-
serves mention. On the floor by the
farther wall lay a rather young woman
but resembling a heap of rags. Beside
her in the curve of her arm was a
tiny baby. On a rude old couch lay an
older child. Its face was flushed but
very thin. Over this bent the[little old
woman and she was feeding this sick
one from the little tin pail. Soon it
sank back on the pillow and slept. The
woman turned to go to the ones lying
on the floor. A faint tap on the window
pane with a londer one following stopp-
ed her and turning she came toward
the door. Opening it she said in her
weak but soothing voice "Who comes?
Can I help you?" "We are rewarding
the faithful." said one of the angels,
"Come with us."

The Echo from the Vermont High
School was received Monday and is a
lively little sheet.

The Canton Pennant devotes a half
page to the following statement:
"This space is dedicated to the Amal-
gamated Society of Deep Sea Spon-
ges. May they read it with due rev-
erence." Wish some Normalites
would take the hint.

The"Northern Illinois"from the Dt
Kalb is devoted mainly to the life and
work of Superintendent L. A. Hatch
an educator very prominent in the
Northern Illinois Teachers' Associa
tion.

Merry Christmas All.

The Western Couriei

STEVENS WINS FIRST PLACE

(Continued from page 69)
out and presented the audience with
some very valuable information regard-
ing the proper control and use of both
public and private forest lands.

"Universal Peace", was the subject
chosen by Mr. Ross Stephens and the
audience was much impressed by both
his thot and delivery. In the course
of his speech he portrayed the evils of
war and made a very strong point on
the question of the expense of main-
taining a navy. One statement, to the
effect that the money required to fire
0.13 of our modern guns would give a
young man a college education wiil
give the reader a more definite notion
of the line of his argument.

The audience was entirely at a loss
to guess the problem Mr Russell
Browning would deal with under the
subject "What Next?" No sooner,
however, had the first paragraph been
given than the audience was aware of
the fact that a very important question
was being discused, this was the ques-
tion of Imigration. Mr Browning spoke
of the rapid increase in population from

. this source and described the evils that

I follow as a consequence.

The last orator was Mr. George
Salisbury who gave an oration, "Amer-
ica's Birthright for a Mess of Pottage".
Probably no question is so vital to the

, coming generations as the question of
the conservation of soil fertility. From
the soil alone is to come the food that
will support life when the present
inhabitants of this earth have passed
on. America exports her most valuable

i mineral asset, phosphorus, to Germany
and other foreign countries, receiving in
return ship loads of toys and worthless
trinkets. Mr Salisbury delivered his well
thought out oration with vigor and force
and convinced his hearers of the truth
of his subject.

The program was further enriched
with opening and closing selections by
the orchestra. Between the second
and third orations a double piano
number "Poet and Peasant" was giv-
en by Mrs. Hursh, Mrs. Johnson,
Miss Dallam, and Miss Dunsworth.
The Nevin Quartet, composed of Miss
Helen Dallam, first violinist, Miss

Dorothy Slinson, second violinist,
Miss Davis, cellist, and Mrs.
Kullmer, taking Miss Shamel's place
at the piano, made its initial appearance
and to those who know these mus c-
ians it will be unncessary to say both
numbers were well received.

The decision of the judges, Miss
Hanna, Miss Corbin, Mr. Walrath,
and Mr. Johnson of the faculty, and
Supt. Birney of the Macomb public
:choo'sgave Mr. Stevens first place,
Mr. Thompson second, and Mr. Salis-
bury third. This means that Mr. Ste-
vens will represent our school in the
contest with a representative from Old
Normal Mar. 29, at Macomb.

THE MAGAZINE HABIT

Have you the "magazine habit?"
Next to the "dictionary habit" this is
the most valuable to acquire. The li-
brary receives practically all of the
popular magazines and they are at
your service. There is probably no
more important factor in moulding
public opinion properly than these
magazines. The Outlook, Literary
Digest, Collier's Weekly, Harper's
Weekly, the Scientific American, and
The Independent, give weekly sur-
veys of the political aspects of the
country, and devote much of their
space to art, literature, and science.
The World Today, Review of Reviews,
World's Work, Popular Mechanics,
Technical World, and various others,
give some space to politics and con-
siderable space to travel, different
forms of philosophy and social re-
form. Some of the magazines are
largely devoted to short stories and
some to strictly scientific subjects.
Country Life in America is remark-
ably interesting for its sensible ideas
and illustrations of the country
beautiful. However, practically all
of our magazines are well illustrated,
and this fact alone makes them worth
your while.

This coming 25th of December
will be the finest Christmas that has
happened in 1911 years. Why, Be-
cause the world is 1911 times hetter
than it was in the year 1. There are
more good people to help poor peo-
ple than there have been before, and
they are going to do it, too.

Speaking of hats, the other day
a dashing young senior girl rushed
into the office with a nine-foot in cir-
cumference (more or less) beaver

hat. She asked permission to lay
the precious article on the mourner's
seat. Permission was given for the
day but it is thought the cloak
rooms will be enlarged in a short
time to accommodate the monster.

(Continued from page 69)
Editorials, news features and contri-
butions. The editorials shall be judg-
ed on clearness and directness of
style, and moral tone — that is, the
probability of the editorial to mould
a healthy public sentiment. The
news features shall be judged upon
the clear narration of the facts and
the worthiness of the fart to take
space in the publication. The contri-
butions shall inc'ude jokes, poems,
letters, anl all other articles not
classed in the other two divisions,
and they shall be judged on their
literary excellence and their power to
amuse or interest.

The makeup shall be judged by
the location of leading articles, fit-
ness of headlines, and general dispo-
sition of space.

Judges.

The judges for the contest will be
Miss Hanna, Miss Corbin, and Mr.
Walrath, all of the Normal faculty.
Prizes.

The first prizes in both classes
shall be a cut of a suitable emblem,
showing that the papers have been
given first rank. This cut will be in
such form that it can be printed at
the head of the editorial column ev-
ery issue. This will he valuable, not
for its intrinsic worth, but for the
high standard of journalism that it
stands for.

Other Rules.

The contestants shall be required
to send five copies of every issue foi
the time of the contest to the West-
ern Courier, and the Courier will
be sent each week to keep the vari-
ous papers informed as to their
standing.

GERMANS MAKE MERRRY

The German Club give a Christmas
entertainment to the members and
invited friends last night in the Domestc
Science rooms. A Christmas tree was
one of the features. Songs, stories and
numbers of a general nature made the
evening very enjoyable.

Mr. Ed. Norton entertained the
twelfth grade class at his home last
Tuesday evening.

The Western Courier

IN SEARCH OF A SCHOOL

Early one June morning In the year
of 1917, just as old Jacob Small had
turned his team around at the end
of one of the long rows of corn, pre-
paratory to resting his horses a few
minutes before beginning on another
row, he was startled to hear a timid
voice behind him saying, "Pardon
me, sir, for interrupting your work,
but is this Mr. Small?" This came
from pretty, slender, dark-haired
Mar.iorle Lee.

"I'm Mr. Small, Miss. I suppose
you're another school teacher huntin'
a job?" he asked gruffly. "I'll bet
I'll nerer go on for school director of
Hickory Hollow again. I'd like to
hare some p«ace In life."

"Yes, sir; I would be very much
pleased to get the school. I have re-
cently graduated from the State Nor-
mal and know all the sew methods
of teaching."

"Aw, don't bother me about new
methods! Do you think yo*'d be
equal to lickin' Bill Jones or teachin'
the kids how to work fractions?"

This was rather a hard blow to
poor Marjorie, who could still re-
member the old days of 1911, when
she had declared to Mr. Walrath that
she "never could understand frac-
tions." Nevertheless, she put on a
bold front and tried, in her various
charming ways, to convince the old
farmer that she could manage any
school in the county.

At last Mr. Small exclaimed:
"Well, you ve got some grit or you
wouldn't talk that way. Go ahead
and see Jacobs and Fowler about it,
and if they say all right, I won't ob-
ject. I suppose you're about as good
as any of these stuck-up college girls.
Seems to me like we can't get a good,
sensible teacher any more." With
these words, the old farmer eracked
his whip and started off down the
row of corn, feeling very self-satisfied
in his important duty of selecting the
school teacher.

RUBY MULLEN.

Miss Davis gave an entertainment
some time ago in Astoria upon the in-
vitation of the graduating class of the
High School. The proceeds were used
by the class to purchase a souvenir
to be presented to the school. This
might give som« of the classes in this
school a hint as to a way to leave their
names permanently in the school.

Subscribe for the Courier

"There has been a quartet of teach-
ers from the Western Normal over
here ever since I came here. This
year the quartet consists of Miss Irvine,
Miss Lauretta Finlay, Miss Mcllhenny
and myself." — Quoted from a letter
from Louise Arnold, '09, to Mr McGil-
vrey.

The writer says she enjoys her work
which is a very, very, good sign that
she is doing it well.

The Board of Control for the Ora-
torical Association is the best that has
been chosen in several years, so we
are informed.

"I tell you I just enjoy talking to rry
pupils for it seems such an inspiration to
them when I talk to them out of school
hours."

The above sentence was stated in the
letter from an old student who i^ teach-
ing. Doesn't it sound as if a strong per-
sonality was the possession of that
person? Who can guess the name?

Some very excellent articles made
on the turning lathes were on exhibition (
before the trustees last week. Several j
pin trays, plates and goblets displayed I
there show considerable skill.

The boys of each class will "pull off a
stunt" at the banquet tonight and from
the amount of material some have been
seen carrying we would judge a good lot
of fun is coming.

The Athletic Board met Tuesday
and elected Wayne Wetzel for base-
ball manager, George Salisbury, track
manager and Henry Black, football
manager for the coming year.

Miss Davis says she is pleased
with the cast for "As You Like It".
A good play will surely follow.

Lost by Mr.McGilvrey, between Ma-
comb and La Harpe, a presidential
voice.

The Biggsville Booster fr«m the
Biggsville High School Is a welcome
exchange.

The clock is at :s:.t in 1

''-arne
about seven feet high. The <±:ai figures
are mounted en a dull copper
face. The ornamental hands are
made of polished bra.-;. 1 he weights
and the pendulum are quite large and
give the clock an cld-fa^hioned air
that strikes into one the feeling of re-
pose. It was put in the truoteeo'
for their inspection Friday. They ex-
pressed their appreciation in very high
terms.

"Under the Greenwood Tree."

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leaf and subscribe for the Courier-

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BOYS' BANQUET

A GREAT SUCCESS

The Boys of the School Sit at the

Table Together and Then

Laugh Together at the

Class "Stunts" Following.

Thursday, Dec. 21, at 6 p. m., a
banquet was given in honor of tb3
football boys. The first thing which
concerned us most was the menu,
which need not be mentioned here,
except that it was excellent, as is
always so when prepared by Miss
Colby and the Sorority girls in our
domestic science department. That
the boys did justice to every course
is sufficient evidence that everything
was good.

There were about 140 boys pres-
ent, making the largest crowd that
has- ever yet attended a boys' ban-
quet. This made an adjournment to
society hall necessary, because of the
better advantages for toasts and
class "stunts." A good program of
toasts had been prepared by some of
the boys with Mr. "Walrath as toast-
master. Also a musical number wis
given by the Sorority girls, which
was enjoyed by all.

After the toasts, the "stunts" by
the various classes were given. Per-
haps it would be well to go into de-
tail somewhat for the benefit of those
who were not present.

It would be hard to say which class
was the best, although there seemed
to be some prefernce among the boys
as to which class gave the best
"stunt."

The ninth grade came first and re-
sponded with a promenade around
the hall, after which they formed a
Bort of a circle and gave a yell In
praise of the class of 1914.

The tenth grade gave a musical
number on a very ingeniously de-
vised instrument dubbed the Jaaxa-
phone. A medley of several /Well-
known classics was given,, whlc"h was
very enjoyable.

The eleventh grade showed that
somewhere a dictionary had been in
use by the rather long words which
were In evidence in an impassioned

(Continued on page 75)

SO LONG AS ITS LEAP YEAR
THERE'S HOPE."

McGILVREY IS TEN-
DERED PRESIDENCY

It Is Feared That His Resignation
From the Kent, Ohio, Normal
School Will Not Be Ac-
cepted by Kent Trustees.

At the trustees meeting held in
Galesburg, Mr. J. E. McGilvrey was
tendered the presidency of this school.
It is to be regretted by us that he was
elected president of the Kent Normal
School at Kent, Ohio, last year. His
resignation from that position has been
handed to the board of trustees there
but in a letter to Mr. McGilvrey the
president of the board expresses the
belief that the resignation will not be
accepted.

It is hoped by the entire faculty and
all the students that some arrangement
can be made so that he may remain
with us. Those who are aquainted with
Mr. McGilvrey and his work are very
earnest in their commendation. The
standing he has among educators will
be better realized when it is known that
he was chosen from among quite a
number of well known educators in
this state and elsewhere. \

X ^

THE ILLINGIS STATE
TEACHERS' MEETING

Teachers of the State Gather at
Springfield During the Holi-
days and Discuss School
Problems of the State.

The Illinois State Teachers' Asso-
ciation met at Springfield, December
27-29, 1911.

The cential theme of the meeting
was "Education a Part of the Child's
Life and a Preparation for Life."
Among the speakers were Hon. F.
G. Blair, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Earl Barnes of
Philadelphia, Miss Myra C. Billings,
R. M. Hitch, E. G. Cooley of Chicago,
and Percival Chubb of St. Louis.

Governor Charles S. Deneen wel-
comed the teachers in a very happy
way, the President's Address by H.
W. Shryock of Carbondale on "The
New Epicureanism" gave the Asso-
ciation members something to think
about, and the Imperial Quartet of
Chicago sang pleasingly.

The sections of the Association all
bad profitable sessions and transact-
ed considerable business. These sec-
tions are as follows: County Super-
intendents, Principals, High School*,
College, Child Study, Primary, Mu-
sic, Village Principals and Parent-
Teacb-r. The Normal School Coun-
cil and the City Superintendents'
Association meet in connection with
the State AsFociation.

The attendance was nearly one
thousand. The attendance was good.
In the business sessions the work
was constructive and of great im-
portance in its probable bearing upon
the schools of the State. Resolutions
recommending the restoration of the
two mill tax; free high school priv-
ileges for all children; extension of
the teachers' certificating law; dem-
onstration work of the National Soil
Fertility League; co-operation with
the Illinois Bankers' Association in
the drafting of a bill to provide agri-
cultural and vocational training; a
spirit of fairness in dealing with in-
ternational matters and the organi-
zation of State branches of the
American School Peace League; a
(Continued on pagt 75)

The Western Courier.
Board of Managers.

Senior Paul Leach

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapea

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Offlclo Mr. McGilvrey

EDITOR GUY HOYT

ASS'T EDITOR. THERON CHANEY
ILLUSTRATOR. . .VIRGIL CATLIN

Business Manager C. E. White

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

TREASURER RALPH BISHOP

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EDITORIAL

When people are not at work, they
generally seek something to make
them laugh or make them feel good.
People quite often go to church to
make themselves feel good, and invar-
iably go to some show to get in the
laughing mood. There are the most
kinds cf shows to make people laugh
and each particular variety of show
exists for the benefit of a particular
class of people. A show that makes
some people laugh provokes disgust
in others.

Managers of shows know what to
produce to make a certain class of
people laugh. Nowadays an active
young man dressed up in a manner
to represent a cross between a Dutch-
man and a hobo always starts a ripple
of laughter which grows into a roar
after he pulls three or four handker-
chiefs from various parts of his clothing.
After some other preliminaries he
startles his audience by turning two or
three somersaults in the air. It is al-
ways very taking for him to throw a
feather duster or other light article to-
ward the floor, a gun being fired back
of the scenes as the aforesaid article

VVksi

(

strikes. Then it is also very amusing
to see the hobo-Dutchman fall down
because he always stri* es with a ter-
rific bang.(of course the oang comes
from a tin pan behind the stage).
After an unlimited amount of explo-
sion our hobo stands face to the audi-
ence, makes a few grimaces and cracks
a few very stale jokes. But the people
laugh at these and clap their hands
vigorously. After fifteen minutes of
such performance he decides he should
adjourn, so he works his way toward
the exit. At the last moment he re-
moves his wig, smiles sweetly, and in-
dulges in a profound bow. The audience
makes an uproar, he repeats his smile
and bow and retires. The sporty young
man whispers to his friend; "Isn't he
some comedian now"; and she says,
"0,1 just think he's perfectly stunning"-

A man without a purpose in life
is much like a ship without a rud-
der. That which keeps him directed
in the path of right living is gone,
and, tossed to and fro upon the
waves of hard knocks, the guideless
craft at last crashes into some ro?k
of temptation and the shore of time
is strewn with the wreck of another
life.

HIGH SCHOOL EDITORS
ATTENTION

Send five copies of your paper for
the second week in January to "The
Western Courier", Macomb, 111. If
your paper is a monthly, send the
fivecopies of the January number.

The Courier is sorry the Christmas
vacation broke into this week because
we had hoped to give the high school
publications some additional informa-
tion in regard to the Contest mention-
ed last week.

The hope is, that the editors will
take advantage of the season to stim-
ulate their papers to greater activity.

The Courier wishes everybody here-
there, and elsewhere a Happy New
Year and a sane Fourth of July.

What did you get for Christmas?
The Courier got a rest.

GOSPEL TEAM WORK

On Tuesday during the holiday*
four memb< rs team ar-

rived at Table Grove and a'
gan work trjing to come in touch
with the young men of that place.
The fifth member of the team axvi.el
Thursday and added his efforts to the
work of the team. The local people
had made preparations for their corn-
ing and their efforts were very en-
couraging. The business house-: were
all closed one hour each evening for
the meeting. Through the presen-ei
and encouragement of these leading
citizens the men worked as best thejr
cnuld to serve the Master and to get
others to take that step.

Wednesday night they played a
game of basketball with the local
high school team, and they were thus
able to become better acquainted
with several of the boys. The team
had planned on having a cross coun-
try run, but could not get the crowd?
together the first time, and the sev
ond attempt was prevented by in-
clement weather.

The members of the team, R.alph
Bishop, Alfred Sorensen, Paul Leach,
Will Jeffries and George Salisbury,
all say that It was one of, if not the
most, profitable weeks of their lives.
The people of Table Grove are royal
entertainers and the team will long
remember the kindness shown them.
The results of the work are impossi-
ble to measure. The team men know
they have received much benefit and
hope they have benefited others.

ANOTHER WIFE SEES HER
HUSBAND'S CHIN

Our many readers will be grieved to
hear that Mr. Johnson has completely
destroyed his whiskers and cropped hi!
mustache. He looks twenty or thirtj
years younger. This puts an end to al
faculty whiskers. When will the mus-
taches go?

The Study Hall and class room
were aroused from the week of dee
silence Tuesday noon by the returnin
students. Of course every one fe
quite happy to get into the harne:
again but in spite of all this bubblir
over the regular routine was begv
with the punctuality that is usual
present here.

The Western Couriek

ILLINOIS STATE LEACHERS'
MEETING

( ontinued from pa-r 73)

Ion between parent and
teacher; and asking the Inspection,

cat.'on and standardization of
the high schools of the State fiom
the State Superintendent's office
were pas

Probably the most imp rtant act
of the meeting was the proposed re-
organifation of the Teachers' Asso-
ciations of the State into one body,
the plan being in accordance with a
notion that a general welfare com-
mittee consisting of the Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction and three
representatives from each of the
ei-sht great associations or divisions
in the State be appointed to formu-
late a ph'.n and to take the steps nec-
essary to form an organization of
all the teachers of the State. This
was done and members of this com-
mittee were appointed and a report
was made during the session. The
eight divisions referred to are North-
eastern, Northwestern, Chicago,
Central, Western or Military Tract,
Eastern, Southern, and the State
Association. Prof. S. B. Hursh of
this school is one of the members of
the Western Division. This work
promises to be tremendously effect-
ive, as the committee has gone to
work with a right good will. Its
risibilities are lirait'.ess and when
the teachers of the great State of
Illinois really work together and all
together, there will be something
do ! ng nlcn~ educational lines.

TWO BOYS, A STOVE AND
SOME SMOKE

George Salisbury and Paul Leach
say they feel much as they imagine
smoked meat feels. They never
have been hung up in a smoke house
but in Table Grove the other night
they slept in a room heated by a stove
inclined to smoke. By swallowing a
good share of the smoke and j llowing
the rest to escape through the windows
which were thrown open wide they
managed to spend the night in pa-
tience and suffering. This happened
to be one of these real cold nights too,
and although the smoke took up a
good share of the window space getting
out, enough of the crisp atmosphere
managed to squeeze in to cause George
Salisbury to exclaim in a half frozen
manner between his chattering teeth,

"I'll freeze to death before morning".
Contrary to George's expectations he
managed to live thru the night and
awoke next morning, or rather, con-
tinued awake u itil mori ing, to see.
when the smoke Lad ^.^.cu away, ti»e
light of the same old sun. Now, all
this trouble which came so near
making an angel of George and maybe
of Paul, resu'ted from the boys not
stopping to think that often times stoves
have dampers needing to be worked just
right to secure desired results. How-
ever, to end this little tale, George
was found next morning standing be-
fore a cheery fire, the last traces of
smoke circling round his head, rejoic-
ing in the fact that "he that seeketh
findeth", be it nothing more than
knowledge connected with the manip-
ulation of the damper to a stove.

BOYS' BANQUET A GREAT
SUCCESS

(Continued from page 73)
oration delivered by the Right-Rev-
erend Doctor McCall, LL. D., Ph. D.,
D. D. It was in praise of the foot-
ball team, and was accompanied by
appropriate gestures given by anoth-
er member of the class.

The twelfth grade was represented
by an orator of national reputation,
but who proved to be a member of
the class in the person of Mr. Verne
Hoar.

The juniors gave a mock faculty
meeting in which they discussed the
various good and bad qualities of the
senior boys, and debated upon the
advisability of giving them their d'-
plomas.

The seniors gave us the rare privi-
lege of hearing some fine operatic se-
lections, sung by none other than
Miss Mary Garden (Guy Hoyt). She
was accompanied by the famous
Thomas orchestra. They then con-
cluded their "stunt" by singing a
comical arrangement of "John
Brown's Body," etc.

This concluded the class "stunts."

However, between them were sev-
eral yells, which gave Mr. Hursh an
opportunity to demonstrate his abil-
ity as a yell-master.

The program was ended by speech-
es from the football boys, who fin-
ished just as the lights "blinked."
Taken altogether, the evening was
very enjoyable and was voted a suc-
cess by all the boys present.

A NEW PIPE ORGAN

At the trustees' meeting In Gales-
burg a short time ago, it was voted
to purchase an organ for the audito-
rium. The contract was let to the
same company that installed the
Universalist and Christian church
organs several years ago, this com-
pany being represented in this ter-
ritory by L. Stocker Sons of Macomb.

The price of the organ is $2700,
but through the efforts of Trustee
Keefer a reduction was obtained.
However, some additions have been
made to the plans that will improve
the instrument to a great extent.
These additions were suggested by
Prof. Thompson of Galesburg, who
is considered a very able judge of or-
gans of this type.

Some question as to the location
of the instrument in the auditorium
has arisen, but Mr. Keefer has ans-
wered this to the satisfaction of all.
The pipes will be set back into that
part of the north wall of he auditori-
um just east of the stage. An orna-
mental lattice .work will conceal the
pipes from view. The console, or
keyboard, will be placed on the floor
just below the present hot-air inlet
and will not in any way interfere
with the convenience of the room. It
will be installed some time between
March 9 and 27.

This improvement will be of more
interest to the readers when it is
said that this organ is a memorial to
Mr. Bayliss. The idea was originated
by him, and in the carrying out of
his plan the board feels it is estab-
lishing a very fitting memorial to
him.

BOYS' BASKET BALL SCHED-
ULE

Jan. 5-- Abingdon H.S.-- Here.
Jan. 26- Canton H.S.-- Here.
Feb. 2-- Abingdon H.S.-- Abingdon.
Feb. 9- Carthage College-
Carthage.
Feb. 23- Carthage College- Here-
Mar. 1— Canton H.S. — Canton.

The Oratorical Board has been on
the search for a suitable question for
debate in the class contests and has
proposed this one: "Resolved that
in the interest of Universal Peace the
United States should disarm." What
do you think of it ?

The Western Courier

HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE CLUB

During the last regular meetings cf
the Farmer's Institute a movement was
set on foot by Miss Eva Colby to int-
erest the farmers' wives in a House-
hold Science organization. On Satur-
day aterr.con, December 16th, a
meeting was held in the courthouse for
this purpose, Miss Colby acting as
chairman.

The organization was given the name
of McDonough County Houshold Sci-
ence Club. The officers for the ensue-
ing year are Mrs. Birney, Pres. and
Miss Martha McLean, Sec. A com-
mittee was chosen to draw up a Con
stitution to be discussed at the next
meeting of the club.

Junior preliminary, Jan. 18.
Class declamatory, Feb. 2.
Final class contest, March 1.

The cast for "As. You Like It" will
be published next week. The date
for the play is Friday evening
Feb. 16.

Watch for the special offer
Oratorical Board next week.

by the

Cyrus Lantz, '09, now at the Uni-
versity of Illinois, reports favorably on
his work there.

The amount of mail that accumulat
ed during the week was surprising.
The Libarian used a reading table
for its distribution.

Mi:;:: Helen Chandler, teaching at
Duright, 111. has a^ked Mr. McG
to part with a Senior to substitute for
a teacher in that city who is ill with
pneumonia. Miss Ruth Strosnlc
accept the position and the work she
does there, during the next four weeks
she expects to stay, will be taken by
the'Trainmg School Authorities in lieu
of practice teaching.

Miss < "Vat-net Payne,' 1 1, says she is
enjoying hereself thoroly at Marissa,
111. She thinks the Egyptians are ve-y
agreeable.

The regular meeting of the Y.M.C
A. Wednesday evening was addressed
by Ralph Bishop.

Grant Huey has been elected as
captain of the Basket Ball team.

It is thought the cloak rooms on 'the
girls side of the house will be quite
inadequate during the cold weather,
judging from the new furs.

Some new students have found
their way into our classes since our
vacation.

Enrollment to-date: girls 269, boys
165. Total 434, not counting cor-
respondence and extension students.

The Study Hall will accomodate only
four more students and the ninth grade
has its private Study Hall. Where
next?

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., JAN. II, 1912.

M MBER XXI

OLD MAIDS ON WARPATH

UNAPPROPRIATED
BLESSINGS HOLD A
A BIG POW WOW

Plans for the Leap Year Conquest

Are Laid. — A Man Trap

Even Planned.

With gaze fixed intently on tbe
gi eat motto for 1912, "As Long as
It's Leap Year There's Hope," the
ladies of this institution assem-
bled last Friday night with deter-
mination in their hearts and devices
in their minds. Many of the more
youthful and gushing ladies went to
much trouble to make themselves
lcok "Old Maidish." However, there
were many, many others who did
not need the faintest hint of a make-
up to make them suitable to the
occasion.

A rather informal program was
given by several of the "left-overs."
Miss Isabelle Brooking sang a solo
s - : table to the occasion,
Wilson and Miss Helen Miner fa-
vored the spinsters with a duet
Miss Nell Brinton gave a reading,
as did also Lora Wilson. Miss Ruth
Cochran and Miss Beatrice Taylor
realized a very touching duet; Miss
Nina Spicer sang a solo and Miss
Davis read a very pathetic selection
"If I Could Be By "Im." Miss Grote
instructed the group in the science
of knitting.

After spinster refreshments were
served, the meeting resolved itself
into a business session. It was here
that the most vital questions came
up. It is said that some ingenious
maiden lady, somewhere between
the years forty and eighty, present-
ed plans for a man trap. This hor-
rible instrument of torture was ap-
proved by the meeting, and a large
shipment ordered.

The ladies decided to trap only
those men of the school who have
Joined the Mustache club. Each one
present filed a list of men whom
she will try to capture sometime be-
fore the close of 1912. This is done
to avoid conflicts.

After all, this affair was quite
heart-rending. To see the poor, dis-
appointed creatures making new.

EXTENSION WORK

BEING PUSHED

GET YOUR BID IN EARLY WHILE
THEY LAST.

plans, which any reasonable person
would surely know they could never
be carried out, was enough to make
the bravest sigh. By looking over the
motley crowd, one could see traced
in the pinched faces traces of every
conceivable agony. Not all faces,
though, showed the marks of disap-
pointment.

Some had never known, and never
will know, the hungry longings of I
the heart for the first time pierced
by Cupid's arrow. The expression
on these faces was tsern and unsym-
pathetic. On other faces was worn the
undisputed sign of hope. Some
seemed to take the affair as a joke,
knowing full well they were soon to
choose or be chosen.

The meeting was brought to a
close about nine o'clock, all, even the
cat, voting the Y. W. girls great ben-
efactors.

MR. BONSER HEARD FROM

Mr. Bonser, formerly head of
the department of education here but
now teacfrng in Columbia University
has written asking for the thesis in
history prepared by Miss Gladys Fish-
leigh in her Senior year here, saying
that the material in it is better organ-
ized than he has been able to find it
elsewhere. Just at present Miss Fish-
leigh is elaborating and adapting this
thesis for Quarterly No. 12 which will
be out in a short time.

Teachers in Other Towns are Ea-
ger for the Work. — Meeting
of Superintendents and
Principals Planned.

Our readers will doubtless be in-
terested to learn of a few important
events in connection with the Exten-
sion work spoken of in the Courier
some time ago.

A new ciass is being organized in
Laliarpe for the extension courses.
So far twenty-two members have
been enrolled. Among this number
are three ministers of that town who
will take the course in Psychology.
This fact shows the important posi-
tion that Psychology holds in the
field of all social effort.

The teachers of Canton have been
asking for some time that an exten-
sion class be formed in that city,
but owing to the lack of teaching
force, the authorities here have de-
layed it somewhat. A letter from
Superintendent Gayler to Mr. McGil-
vrey congratulates him on his ap-
pointment to the presidency of this
school and asks him for further in-
formation concerning the extension
work. Mr. McGilvrey was asked to
come to Canton to address the teach-
ers there Jan. 12. This indicates
considerable interest among the
teaching force of that city, in pro-
fessional progress, and shows their
appreciation of the Western Normal
School.

Plans are under way looking to
the holding of a banquet at the Nor-
mal School to the Superintendents
and Principals of the Military Tract.
At this meeting the possibilities of
the extension work will be discussed
and plans will be made for carrying
it forward. This affair ought to be
attended by every superintendent
and principal in the Military Tract
and if it is, there will surely be some
• mprovement in school conditions as
n direct result of it.

"The Macomb (111.) State Normal
School has perfected a plan of exten-
sion work which makes it possible
'or teachers in service to do a year's
normal work "in absentia." This al-

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EDITORIAL

Surely Normal School students are
always interested in all signs of ad-
vancement along educational lines.
Certain of these signs are making their
appearance in the north part of the
county in the vicinity of Good Hope.

A very energetic and progressive
ninister of that little village is using
the columns of the Good Hope Reflect-
or to stir up the sentiment of the mem-
bers of the community in regard to a
school coniolidation project. This
man has been making some investiga-
tions concerning the consolidation idea
and in the course of his trip he visited
the John Swaney school and refers to
it quite often as a model institution.
Many of our readers will remember
that Mr. Ralph Eyman, '10, is princi-
pal of that school.

From the interest the Courier has
in all progressive steps toward a better
educational system, it hopes the child-
ren of the Good Hope community may
be enabled t - - he advantages

of the proposed system.

If the "Pi-
over the "Stan I will be due
to two reasons, m; \ the
"Standpatters" will say, "It will make
taxes too high." Second, they will say
"The present system W3S good enough
for us and we don't care to have our
children learn a lot of this new fangled
stuff." These reasons spring from
two instincts of human nature, the
first from the love of gain, the second
from downright "old-fashionedness."
Any teacher who has taught s
enough to realize the enormous res-
ponsibilities and also the golden oppor-
tunities a school teacher could a:
and grasp if she only hid time, v. ill
earnestly favor any forward move-
ment along the line of education

The Courier, believing in women but
not in "Old Maids", has decided to
use its influence to reduce the supply in
this school. This is an Old
number.

ATTENTION EDITORS

i believe your high school

publication has any influence in the

life of your school? Do you believe

it can be madt to wield a large in-

■ ? The Courier Contest for

School papers will help y u

your paper.

Mr. McGilvrey complimented the
students at the chapel exercises Mon-
day on their readiness and willingness
to respond to any suggestion for look-
ing toward the betterment of school
conditions. Undoubtedly the student
body is catching the true school spirit.
This taken together with the increase
in attendance and the improvement in
classwork indicated a well defined ad-
vance in the efficiency of the school.

Mr. McGilvrey says, "Let's keep
our contract with the clocks by being
on time at Chapel."

It is said that many girls are study-
ing up on the "Art of Questioning."
The reason for this is, cf course, obvi-

beard last wee
"Old Maidr C

"•//hen thj gol
And your

Looks with lo

S '

And with joyful step
Start your preparat

For O

Poor Mary had a I
As loving a

She th
So she asked him up t<

The tea was clear, the tal
But, oh! the sad, sad -

Ycu'll hear the rest if you
With the Old Maids Friday i

SENIOR DIRECTORIES
The Sen or directories are i
ready for distribution. They contain
names and both the Macomb an
home addresses cf the students ana
faculty. The directory of the :
also appears very near the beginningl
of the bock. All the remaining space is
devoted to advertisements. The Senior!
ask the students to consider the adverJ
tisers before purchasing things in the!
line. They are all first class buisnesa
men.

THE LITERARY SOCIETIES
A very interesting program waif
given in the Society Hall by the]
Emersonians on Thursday last. Afl
the selections were carefully executed. |
By the size of the crowd present, it is
easy to see the Emersonians are soar-jj
ing high above their anticipations.

The Platonian meetings have beenij
unusually good of late. Today a "cur-
rent events" program will be giveiM
which will be well worth hearing.!
New members will be taken in.

The Senior class in reading ha4
been observing the telling of Robinsonl
Crusoe to the second grade by MisiJ
Cooper.

Wkstkkn Co

EXTENSION WORK

(Continued from pa -
iws wide-awake teachers to
lete a professional course by being
bsent from their school work only
ae jrear. The plan is mee( in
insiderable favor. - '— The Western
ournal of Education,
lien.

BASKET BALL

The Normal boys made their f; I
ppearance on the floor last Friday
ight when they met Abingdon High
ichool's fast basket ball flingers. Our
ays made a very good showing, cen-
tering the reputation held b;
pponents. The Abingdon boys were

bunch of fast, cL-aiv players and
'ell deserved the victory which was
ieirs.

The first half was .very good when we
onsider Abingdon's side, as they piled
p points very rapidly. The score at
tie end ot this half was 23-8 in favor
f Abingdon.

The second half showed a decided
race on the part of our boys. They
layed much faster ball aud were able
D hold Abingdon even. They were
lelped somewhat by a bunch of rooters
rho were somewhat ba'ated in getting
heir vocal chore, in use. The game
mded in favor cf Abtffgbon by a score
if 47-30.
The line-up LI

Abingdon Norma!

L.F. Sorensen

R.F. RoEt

C. Russel, Salisbury

L.G.Salisbury, Mapes

R.G. Huey

A game was also played between
he second team and the ninth grade.
["he 'teams were not very evenly
natched, the secoad team being de-
:idedly faster than the ninth. The
jame ended in favor of the second
earn, score, 22--5.

• The ladies of the Old Maids' Club
n resolving to capture the men of the
mustache club overlooked one serious
danger. These mustaches will make
kissing rather ticklish business.

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BOB SLED RIDES

i
The ninth graders indulged in a bob j

sled ride Tuesday evening. The girls

acted the gallant part, this being leap j

year. Mr. Bishop and Miss Corbin were |

chaperons. One member of the party j

thinks it would have been a very good |

ride if the team had not get "stuck"

several times.

The te ith boys ,

enjoyed a sled ride Tuesday night also.

Mrs. Walrath chaperoned one j

party; and 'Mr, Simon Simonscn and

Mis: Martha McLean the other.

CASTTCR "AS YOU LIKE IT"
Usurping Duke Mr. DeWitt Dobson
Exiled Di.ke Mr Ben West

Amiens ' Mr. Theron Chaney

Jacques Mr. George Salisbury j

Oliver, eldest son of Sir Rowland ',
deBoys Mr. Ralph Switzer j

Orlando, youngest son of Sir Rowland
deBoys Mr. George Mapes

Charles, the wrestler

Mr. Alfred Sorensen
Adam, Mr. Ed. Norton, Jr.

Corin, a shepherd, Mr. Ross Stephens
Selvius, a shepherd,

Mr. Howard Thompson

Touchstone, the fool. Mr. Guy Hoyt

Rosalind. Miss Evelyn Wyne

Celia. Miss Eva Finlay \

Phoebe. Miss Ursula Kennedy

Audrey, Miss Christie Darke

Foresters: — Mr. Paul Leach, Mr.

Harlow Wyne, Mr. Lester Smith,

Mr. Clarence Jones, and Mr. Will

Jeffries.

THE GERMAN CLUB'S CHRIST-
MAS FESTIVAL

We think of it still with pleasure:
the tree, "Kriss Kringle" with his gifts,
the decorations, the songs, the play and
above all the "beligtes Butterbrot,
Lebkuchen, Springerli, Pfeffer-
nuszchen," and delicious coffee which
the committee had imported for our
enjoyment from places where real
German things are made.

lests, and the hearty enthi .
tic way in which everyU
I of the eveni
its completeness, and «
great satisfaction to everybody wh
had worked to make it a success.

Special commendation is due to the
r- freshment committee consisting of
Mi s Haffner. Miss Marrs, and Miss
Behrensmeyer and the members of the
play cast, Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Ma, ... .
and Miss Cordell, Miss Mitchell, and
Miss Stocking.

a very ha pry •
and the ha| piest z i
Miss Oison recipient of the box : i
beautiful hand painted china from the
members ot the club, which were, so
she thought, enough to make her
happy for a whole year to come.

NINTH GRADE CONTEST

The ninth grade preliminary decla-
mation contest was held las* Thursday
afternoon. The following contestai ts
had entered:- Miriam Null, Ruth
Cannon, Nina Walters. Verna Hoteling
Nellie Morrow, Esther Fuhr, Jay Edie,
Wade Adams, Ira Burnham, John
Kennett, and Lyman Vose. From this
number a boy and a girl were to be
chosen who v/ere to compete once more
for the class championship which would
entitle them to contest with the tenth
and eleventh graJes and the country
school ciass The judges were Miss.
Fishleigh, Mr. Walrath, and Mr.
Bishop. Their decision gave first
place among the boys to Wade Adams
and equal rank anong the girls to
Ruth Cannon and Nina Walters. The
next contest anong these three will be
held in the ninth grade literary society
in about three weeks.

Miss Irene Bassett, '11, in a letter
to Miss Colby says she is going at
once to Buba, Texas, a town abont
twenty miles from Austin. She is
quite sure she will like the position and
seems quite taken np with the idea of
spending the winter in the South. Miss
Bassett received her special dipioma
tn Domestic Science last year.

The Western Courier

GIRLS* BASKET BALL

Jan. 10- 9 & 10 vs. C. S.
Jan. 17-- C. S. vs. Normal.
Jan. 24-- 9 & 10 vs. Normal.
Jan. 31- C. S. vs. Academy.
Fep. 7- 9 & 10 vs. Academy.
Feb. 14- Academy vs Normal.

WHY TAKE MECHANICAL
DRAWING?

There are thirty two students this
quarter ranging in grade from the sen-
ior class to the seventh grade v/ho con-
sider it worth while to take Mechanic-
al Drawing. If asked why they are
taking it I fear some would reply, "for
the credit". But there is far more
value to be secured from this course
than the mere slip of paper stating
that they have spent so many hours in
the shop.

One of the greatest benefits to be
gained is the cultivation of original
work. Comparatively all the work
must be done by the pupil. He must
be able to see the constructions him-
self and to think out his own prob-
lems. Another trait to be developed
is accuracy. The drawing must be
true in every detail before they are
accepted. It also enables one to see
clearly all the lines and views of an
object. The work cannot be hurried
through or slighted, but enough time
must be given it to do it right.

Outside of all these benefits is still
the good which he secures from the
knowledge of the work alone. After
taking such a course, a boy is able to
sit down and draw a plan for a sled,
tool chest, or any other thing which he
wishes to make, thus saving time and
material, because he can accurately
tell just how each piece is to be made
and how much material will be need-
ed.

The Normal Times, the official or-
gan of the student body of the State
Normal School at San Jose, Califor-
nia, is now on our exchage list. The
Christmas number is especially inter-
esting and contains the pictures of the
Mid-Winter graduating class. This
class numbers fifty-one and the Times
says It is the largest ever graduated
at the Ghristmas time.

The Open Country Club No. 2. in
extending its membership is doing
something that will be valuable to
rural school districts. No part of pub-
lic school system suffers so much at
the hands oi incompetent and poorly
prepared teschers as the country
schools. Any organization which will
effect a change for the detter is doing
a very patriotic piece of work.

Agnes Crawford, ' 1 1 , who is now
teaching in Salt Lake City sends in
her subscription to the Courier and
also states that she likes her work
better every day.

A comparison of the registration
figures at the various large universities
of the country shows Columbia Uni-
versity to rank first in the entire list.
Figures compiled to date show the
registration of students as follows:
Columbia, 7,429; Chicago, 6,466;
Minnesota, 5,965; Wisconsin, 5,538;
Pennsylvania, 5,389; Michigan, 5,381;
Cornell, 5,104;Illinois, 5,118; Howard,
5,028; Nebraska, 4,624; California,
3,450; Missouri, 3, 1 4 1 ; and Iowa, 2,090
— Kirksville Index

Miss Dunsworth is playing Noc-
turnes this week. The students are
enjoying them too.

Mr. Dickerson spoke at the Y.M.C.
A. Tuesday, evening.

A class of boys is making a profit-
able study of the Bible under the
supervision of Mr. Bishop.

The Young Womens' Christian As-
sociation held its meeting Tuesday at
four oclock.

The extremely frigid weather has
been responsible for a maximum of
coughing among the students particu-
larly ncticable at Chapel.

If you see several boys wearing dirty
looking upper lips dont tell them to go
wash, they are members of the mus-
tache club.

Some rogue cf a boy (we
the following notice on the bulletin I
board:

-Warnujc-
Boys beware, keep in bodies of not 1
less than ten, as girls are on the warpath. 1
— Boys 5a;ety Com.

The children have been enjoying f
themselves immensely v/ith their I
skates and our little lake.

Everyone welcomes Miss Shamel
again to her regular duties.

Have you seen Harvey('s) Mint-eer?

Why is Christie Darke?

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., JAN. 18, 1912.

NUMBER X* II

BEDDING GIRLS LOSE
BASKET BALL GAME.

Our Girls Show the College Girls

a Defeat by a S ore

of 31-13.

Our girls' basket-ball team has in a
way atoned for the defeat received by
the boys some time ago in that they
defeated Hedding College Wednesday
Jan. 10, at Abingdon. The team was
accompanied by the coach, Miss Lam-
kin, and quite a number of girls who
deserve credit for their loyal support,
which is always largely instrumental in
winning any game. Our team was re-
ceived with the greatest cordiality and
the girls report a very pleasant
time. After the game they were en-
tertained by the Hedding girls who
honored them by a "spread" at their
dormitory.

The team played well and showed
much teamwork. Christie was as
consistent as usual in making baskets
while Lela Terril! did equally well as
the other forward. Misses Robertson
and Jackson played their usual good
game at center while the Misses
Welborn and Stinson did especially
commendable work as guards.

The Hedding girls played a very
good game when we consider that all
their practice has been according to
boys' rules, this being their first game
subject to girls' rules.

The Normal line-up:

Forwards Darke, Terrill.

Centers Jackson, Robertson.

Guards - - Stinson, Welborn.

Sub. Cordell.

Referee Anderton.

Score, Hedding, 13, Normal, 31.

In naming the characters In the
"As You Like It" cast last week, the
name of "William," to be acted by
Mr. Victor Wood, was omitted.

Mr. Prentice Walters, '09, now
teaching at Lafayette, 111., was doing
some work in the library last Satur-
day.

INTER-SCHOOL DE-
BATES AGITATED

Kirksville Index Makss a State-
ment Regarding Debates
with This School.

The Kirksville Index makes the fol-
lowing statement in regard to the in-
ter-school debates:

We are nearer to an agreement
with Macomb than with the two other
schools. They have proposed the
question: Resolved, That in the Inter-
est of Universal Peace the United
States Should Disarm. This is the
subject of their interclass debates and
for that reason they are, apparently,
unwilling to consider any other. The
Debating League does not consider
this the best of questions; but with
some limitations and definitions it
would, in all probability, be accept-
able. If it is decided that Macomb is
the most desirable opponent the two
schools should be able to agree on the
other necessary arrangements. The
general plan that Macomb proposed
and the one which, most likely will be
followed is for a debate to be held at
each school on the same evening, that
is, each school would have a team at
home and another at the other school.
If we enter into a contest with Macomb
that will be our only debate for this
year.

NOTICE

The oratorical board of control of-
fers a 1912 Sequel for the best song of
three stanzas, two about oratory or the
school in general, and one setting forth
the virtues of Stephens. Tune: "There's
A Good Time Coming; Help It On."
The song must be handed to Miss.
Shamel on or before Feb. 15, 1912.
The board reserves the right to reject
one or all songs.

CONTEST FOR SCHOOL
PAPERS WELL STARTED

Letters of Inquiry Received and

Answered. — Provision Made

for Semi-Monthly Papers.

The editor it, in receipt of a letter
from Canton that will be of interest to
the editors of ail high school papers
the Courier visits.

Dear Sir:-

We have read and digested
the article appearing in "The West-
ern Courier," for Dec. 21, and have
decided to enter the race for journal-
istic honors. Our first numbers will
be sent this week, and will be sent per
rules and instructions.

We would like to know if there will
be any ruling between papers printed
by high school pupils and those printed
by outside printers. Some are you
know.

Hoping to be in on the finals and
wishing for the success of the enter-
prise, I am

Sincerely yours,

Gem Dudley
of "The Pennant".

Mr. Dudley asks a very important
question in the above letter and the
answer to it is this: The judges in
judging the editorials, the news features
and the contributions or miscellaneous
articles will not need to refer to the
mechanical part of the paper. Only in
judging the make-up of the paper,
which judgment will be based on head
lines and location of leading articles
will the mechanical work be touched.
The editors of the papers that are
printed in newspaper offices should sup-
psrintend the location of their leading
articles and the composition of head
lines. If the editors will do this surely
the papers printed in school and those
printed by professional printers will be
on an equal footing.

The following letter from Sioux
(Continued on pagt 83)

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EDITORIAL

We have heard much said of late
concerning attitude. We have heard
of the professional attitude very often
but little has been said of the careless
attitude. This careless attitude on
the part of some of our students (and
we believe they are as good as any
body of students)is the carseof agreat
amount of destruction that should not
be. Some students have the careless
attitude when they forget that the
desks in the Study Hall are made to
write on and the seats to sit on.

Other students who eat their noon
lunches in the Study Hall have this
careless attitude toward the crumbs
and rubbish which they leave in some
other persons desk. These instances
do not happen often but they are trou-
blesome never the less.

Perhaps the slight damage due to
this sort of attitude is nothing com-
pared with the inroads it makes on the
individual in question. The great
power of habit is realized by all. The

careless attitude is made stronger and
more yielding by its continued use. It
soon becomes a habit; when once a
habit, the attitude of carelessness leads
to complete loss of control over con-
duct. People say of a person so afflict-
ed, "He has no self control."

Many young people think it is a waste
of time and money to get a complete
preparation for teaching. This is not
th.3 case because evidence to the con-
trary comes almost daily. Mr. Mc-
Gilvrey has received a letter from
the superintendent of the Reck Island
schools asking for a reliable, competent
young man to take the work of princi-
pal of one cf the city schools at a sal-
ary of one thousand or twelve hundred
dollars. The same day Miss Colby
received a similar letter from an Iowa
town inquiring fcr a teacher of domes-
tic science. These with many
others go to show that the educational
field is a broad one offering great op-
portunity to those who are willing to

PRELIMINARY CONTESTS
HELD

The preliminary contest in decla-
mation for the country school class
and the tenth grade was held last
Thursday in the auditorium. Nine
declamations were given and all
would do credit to the school. The
interest in the outcome of the contest
was keen, and those who stayed un-
til rather late to h-=>ar the last read-
ing and the decision of the judges,
were well repaid for the time spent.

Miss Nina Spicer was given first
place by the judges in the country
school class, and Miss Grace Wilson
in the tenth grade. If the interest
continues to grow as it has since the
plan was first proposed, the final
class contest will be an important
event.

Mr. Hursh spoke freely in chapel
Friday on the benefit students will
get from such work. The faculty
has been worried somewhat over the
literary work of the school, but the
ready response to the class prelimin-
aries and the general enthusiasm of
the students over the outcomeof these
contests indicates that the literary
spirit was only dormant, not dead.

Many more interesting prelimin-
aries will be held. The contestants
in essay, oration, music and debate

an: w.,i y.-j. chosen from tin

The plan ia prod .
the thing it was intended to produce

Interest in I

lines.

OUR FOOTBALL BOYS
We believe in oratory, we bel

football too,
We believe in winning always wl

the goal is fair and true.
We are here to welcome S'
We are here to Uam,

Fcr we all b
And we say just what we n

"The man continually at it,"

Coach V/alrath says, was Gil

While Wetzel did the blocking,

And Dobson punted well.

We cheered at Ikey's running.

And Stickle's tackling too,

In that famous game with Heading

When the score steed well fcr ycu.

In end running, "Sorrie" led you,
While Cy did the breaking through,
And Smith, your opponents was

holding,
Yes, then we rooted for you.
We waved cur banners madiy
When Stephens tore up the play,
For then we saw quite clearly
That the game was coming ycur way.

We will sing for Black and Wilson,

For Leach and Huey too.

We realize the signals were

All well given to you.

The running and the plunging,

The tackling all around,

Brought the goal just so much nearer.

And you made your first touchdown.

Mr Hursh went to Henry County
January 5, and gave an address on
"School Administration". The farm-
ers' Institute of that county is
managing a State Course in Agricul-
ture for the benefit of the county people.
Several of the instructors from the
university were there giving lectures i
on agriculture. Mr. Odenweller, 07',
Mr. Hursh says, is a live wire in his
county.

"I know of nothing much more in- |
spiring than good poetry and nothing
much more disgusting than poor poet- \\
ry."

The Western Courier

CONTEST FOR PAPERS

(Continued from page Si)
Rapids, Iowa brings us up against an-
other proposition. It follows.

Gentlemen:-

This week five issues of
the "Rapid Soo" go to you for the con-
test. Our paper is a Semi-Monthly
and may I ask that you make a sepa-
rate class for such papers? I realize
that I am asking much but we can not
be properly classified as either a week-
ly or monthly. There are very many
such, semi- monthly as curs. Assur-
ing you this will be duly appreciated,
I remain,

Your friend,

Donald G. Cathcart.

In answer to Superintendent Cath-
cart's request the Courier will make
another class in the contest, which
will include the high school papers
published twice a month. Four issues
in this class will be judged, that is, the
contest in this c'ass will end with the
fourth issue, beginning with the first
one in January. The prize will be the
same in this class as in the other two
with the slight changes necessary.

Last week the Courier told of the
plan to allow Miss Strosnider to
substitute at Dwight, 111. for a teach-
er il' with pneumonia. It hss been
learned at this writing that Miss
Strosnider injured her foot so that she
could not do the work and Miss Elva
McDowell was asked to go.

Room 21 is now open at noons for
study purposes. The Study Hall is very
crowded so those who desire to study
in quiet during the noon hour may go
there.

The janitors are making a platform
for one scene in "As You Like It".
Other special material will be made
for the production.

The Courier will print each week
the editorial given first place by the
judges of the High School Publication
Contest along with the name of the
editor and the paper he edits.

SCHOOL GARDEN IN THE
PHILLIPINES

An unusually good picture of a
school garden in the Philippines from
Mr. Pendarvis is just at hand. The
agricultural influence of the Western
Normal, as will be jeen from what
Pendarvis says below is reaching far.
We regret that the readers cannot see
the picture of this garden.

Bcac, Tayabas, P.I .

Nov. 30, 1911.
Altho nature smiles here thruout
the year, yet the vegetabie gardens is
an unknown thing to the Filipino and
one of our many worthy duties in the
Bureau of Education is to introduce
it. This is the first garden on this is-
land anl at present holds the record
as the best garden in the province. By
the middle of January I'll have a
score or more as good as this. You
can't imagine how faithfully the little
chaps work and how interested they,
their teachers, and their parents are
in the work. There is nothing like it.
Pendarvis.

PRELIMINARY CONTEST

A preliminary contest will occur
to-night in Society Hall at 7:30.
The contestants in the Eleventh grade
and in the Junior Class will be chosen
at this time. The selections to be
given follow.

Eleventh Grade Chorus.
Little Nell - Dickens-Berenice Lovely
The School Master Beaten - Dickens
Helen Miner
Making an Orator-Crane Ethel Lucas
"Boots" MaeWindisch

Rebecca's Journey - Wiggin

Hazel Wrigley
The Revenge - Tennyson

Claud Wilson
Piano duet-Hildreth McFeeters and

Isabel Brooking
Junior Chorus.
Nancy's Cinderella - Brainard

Nelle Brinton

The Canyon Flowers - Comer

Lora Wilson
Emmy Lou - Martin - Lela Terrill

Dannie -

God of the Open Air

Quo Vadis- Watson

Anna Seeker
Van Dyke
Mary Van Etten
Frances Reeder

BANQUET TO FOOTBALL
BOYS

The fraternity boys entertained the
football team with a six o'clock dinner
in the new banquet room of the Grand
Cafe last Friday. The room was
profusely decorated with pennants and
the colors used in decoration were
purple and gold, the school colors, and
black and green, the colors of the
fraternity. Twelve candles were
burning at the tab's in honor of the
twelve "letter men" of the team.
Ed Norton, president of the fraternity,
acted as toastmaster for the evening
and several hours were enjoyably spent
in listening to toasts and speeches.
The menu consisted of; Baked Chicken,
Mashed Potatoes, Scalloped Oysters,
Peas, Salmon Salad, Cranberries,
Olives, Pickles, Celery, Purple and
Gold Cake, Ice Cream, Tea, Coffee,
and Milk.

Much interest is being shown in the
coming inter-class basket ball tourna-
ment. The class teams are practicing
steadily and some close and exciting
games are assured.

The country school class has a first
and second team and are showing up
well. The ninth grade played well to-
gether in the eighth grade last year
and are playing much faster this year.
The tenth and eleventh grades are
very evenly matched and will no doubt
put on a very exciting contest when
they meet. The twelves and the Nor-
mal have not, as yet, put a team on the
floor but are expected to do so soon.

The first games will be played next
week, and the tournament will then
continue as in the first week, there be-
ing a game every Tuesday, Wednes"
day, and Friday. The schedule will
be posted soon.

Mr. Ginnings in Coll. Alg.-"Harold-
what is a logarithm."

Harold- "Er- oh- why yes- Lager-
rhythm is a stein song of course".

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MR. McGILVREY'S POCKET
PICKED
.Mr. McGilvrey was in Chicago last
week on business. Arriving at the
station he stepped to the window to
buy a ticket. He confidently r< ach-
ed for his wallet, but it was not
there! He found he had but ten
centsin his pocket and he was anxious
to get the train leaving in ten min-
utes. Moreover, he did not want to
take any chances on sleeping in a
goods box or a barrel with the mer-
cury below zero. Visions of the mu-
nicipal lodging house now passed be-
fore his mind, but before he had
time to worry long the ticket ag' nt
asked him if he had any credentials.
Our president didn't happen to have
anything of importance in that line,
so he was just about to decide to
ride on the bumpers when the agent
said: "Well, you look all right; I'll
just give you a ticket." The next
morning Mr. McGilvrey forwarded a
check to his obliging friend.
Moral: It pays to have a good face.

The "Sequel" is the year-book of
the school. It is published by the
senior class. Volume nine is now in
the process of making. It will he
ready for distribution about the first
of June. It will contain a variety of
pictures illustrative of the school's
activity. The price is one dollar.
Your order will be taken soon.

Engineer Smith had to do double
duty several days last week. The
day fireman was sick, so he was com-
pelled to do his work. He did a
good job of it too. The building
was well heated on the very coldest
day we had.

("rant Jluey, captain of the basket
ball team, had his hand broken Sat-
urday morning whi! engai < I In a
boxing match with "Dad" Alexander.

The first team has been playing a
game every even ng this week with
class teams in order to get in condition
for the Canton game one week from
to-morrow.

The revised constitution of the
Inter State League of State Normal
Schools for 1911-12 has been receiv-
ed. The seventeenth annual oratori-
cal contest will be held at the State
Normal School in Emporia, Kansas,
Friday, May 3. If Stephens wins over
the Old Normal orator March 29, he
will represent this state in the Inter-
State Contest.

Mr. Bishop and the Courier press
have been busy doing some fine printing
for the play. One thousand postcards
printed in green ink have been made
besides an equal number of handbills.
The postcards are especially neat.
Students v/ill soon have a chance to
send some cf these to friends.

Rev. Mr. Rodgers addressed the
young men of the Christian associa-
tion Tuesday evening in the music
room. His subject "The Man We
Ought to Envy", was well chosen and
gave the boys something to think
abour. Dr. Rodgers' talks are always
appreciated by the students for he has
shown much interest in the life of the
school.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL.. JAN. 25, 19 12.

NUMBER XXiil

RESIGNATION IS

NOT ACCEPTED

Kent Trustees Will Not Release

Mr. McGilvrey. -- Will Remain

Here thru Spring Quarter.

The students and faculty of the
school and the citizens of this city
will be much disappointed to learn that
Mr. J.E.McGilvrey's resignation from
the presidency of the Northeastern
Ohio Normal School at Kent was not
accepted by the Board of Trustees.
A set of very peculiar circumstances
confront those interested in the Kent
school. In fact the circumstances are
such that to accept the resignation
might mean a radical change in the
school plans. This means that the
Board of Trustees will find it necessary
to choose a man for the presidency
here quite soon. It is hoped by all, that
/-i man will be found who will act in
harmony with the plans now being
carried out. No doubt the Board will
be successful in finding such an
educator.

A few words regarding the Kent
school will probably be welcomed by
our readers. The school will draw its
students from the Connecticut Re-
serve or Western Reserve very much
as this school draws from the Military
Tract. This reserve located in North-
eastern Ohio, was originally settled by
New Englanders and they have left
evident traces of their culture and
mode of living.

The construction work is well begun,
and two buildings, the administration
building and the woman's dormitory
will be ready for use in October. Mr.
McGilvrey and the Board are new
making arrangements to equip the
buildings. Some of this equipment w.ll
come from the Reformatory at Mans-
field.

Although we are sorry to lose Mr
McGilvery we are glad that he will be
on duty here until the graduation wee k
(Continued on page 87)

TRAIMING FOR BASEBALL HAS

BEGUN.
NOTE:-- THE APPROACHING PEDAL EX-
TREMITY IN THE LOWER RIGHT HAND
CORNER BELONGS TO COACH WALRATH.

'THE LAST LEAF'

An Interesting Letter Written by

Oliver Wendell Holmes the

Year before His Death.

The letter given below v/as written
under the following circumstances: My
seventh -grade class, children about
thirteen years of age, in the Gordon
School of Cleveland, Ohio, had been
reading Holmes' Autocrat of the Break-
fast Table,- a rather severe undertak-
ing for their years, that volume, as has
been observed, not belonging to the
class of writings "highly esteemed by
persons who like to have a book to
tell them to go in when it rains."

This difficult reading has been fol-
lowed by a study of a number of the
minor poems of the same author, en-
ding with the memorizing of those
quaint, half-pathetic, half- humorous,
wholly human and artistically perfect
verses called "The Last Leaf".

Fired with enthusiasm, the children,
in a bundle of artless, childlike letters,
expressed their appreciation to Dr.
Holmes. One of the lads, of a turn of
mind more scientific than poetic, told
the great man that he thought some
of his poetry was very good.

It was the year before the end of
the beloved doctor's long life; the bril-
(Continued on pagt 87)

RUINS OF MORMON

TEMPLE AT NAUVOO

Mormon People Not Discouraged

by Failures Finally Build Great

Temple at Salt Lake City.

In choosing the ruins of the Mormon
Temple at Nauvoo as the subject of
one of his four historical paintings in
the auditorium, the artist no doubt had
in mind the significant part which this
early Illinois settlement played in the
westward march of the Mormons.

After leaving Kirtland, Ohio, where
Joseph Smith had established his first
community of "Saints", he pushed
westward to Jackson County, Missouri,
and here began a permanent settle-
ment. Troubles however arose with
his Gentile neighbors and the hostility
finally became so open that, it was
necessary to remove once more.

Smith's attention was called to a

fine location on the eastern bank of the

I Mississippi almost fifty miles north of

Quincy and upon investigating, he de-
cided that this was a most desirable
site. With his folbwers, who now
amounted to several thousand, he
crossed the river, in 1836 bought large
tracts of land near the little town call-
ed Commerce City, and began to lay
out a new town, which he namad Nau-
voo, from the Hebrew word meaning
pleasant. Work on a temple soon com-
menced, which was to be the largest
and finest building yet attempted by
the Mormons. When completed in
; 846, it was a massive structure, eight-
| by one hundred and twenty eight
•.eet in size, with three stories built of
.stone, surmounted by one or two of
wood above which rose a lofty tower.

Before its completion, however, the
political and religious differences
which had been growing between the
Mormons and the Gentiles came to a
head, Joseph and Hyrum Smith were
arrested on a charge of treason and
-.aken to the jail in Carthago, Hancock
(Continued on pag« 87)

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EDITORIAL

The Illinois Agriculturist is a
•. ery up-to-date farm journal pub-
lished by the Agricultural Club of
the College of Agriculture, Univer-
sity of Illinois. In the Janua/y
number of this magazine there ap-
pears an article on Extension Work
in Agriculture, by Mr. Johnson.

Regarding the general idea of the
educational institutions to the farm-
er, Mr. Johnson says the following:

"Educational institutions right-
fully belong to the people, and
should, therefore, respect the wishes
and needs of society. But an atti-
tude of respectfulness is not suffi-
cient; they should anticipate appar-
rent changes and prepare society to
move into new situations with the
least difficulty. They should be, al-
so, a sort of clearing house for the
newest and best thought in any of
the industries in which the people
are Interested or primarily engaged
for a livelihood. In order that the
special industry, or industries, may
not become stagnant and perhaps
profitless, the educational institution
should be the agent to Introduce

new thoui hi or better thought :mo
that Indugti. . There can be no con-
tinuous industrial growth without a
corresponding intellectual growth
and it is the business of the s<h ol to
give oery workman an opportunity
to get possession of the best in his
particular industry."

The remainder of the article takes
up the work the Western Illinois
Normal School is doing in this ex-
tension work. The experimental
work now being carried on in our
field is discussed briefly. The work
of the head of the agricultural de-
partment in speaking before insti-
tutes and farmers' meetings is spok-
en of to some extent. The follow-
ing sentence, perhaps, will be news
to many of our students, so we quote
it:

"Lately the school is making lan-
tern slides illustrating the experi-
ments on its own field, and other
useful matter, and sending the slides
to county superintendents, who use
them as a basis for their talks on ag-
riculture before the teachers in their
county and local teachers' insti-
tutes."

A very interesting letter from Fena
Nordwall has been received at the
office. Miss Nordwall teaches sixth
grade work in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
She is favorably located both in rela-
tion to her work and to physical sur-
roundings. We quote a part of the
letter to show her interest in our
school activities.

"Judging from the Courier some
interesting things are happening at the
Normal, I was much interested in the
account of the oratorical contest and
want to request that some time, if space
allows, a longer summary of the essay,
"Universal Peace"be published in
"The Courier."

From the Kirksville Index we learn
that arrangements for an inter-school
debate have been discontinued.

The Chicago Record Herald last
Saturday devoted a fair space to a
picture of the Northwestern University
Glee Club which will begin its tour soon
to the Pacific Coast. It is of interest
to us in that a student here last year,
C. Paul White is a member.

STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!

But don't be content with this pass-
ive response. After you have read this
article, get busy and i
ty to your society by rustling in votes
for said organization.

The Courier believes in school
spirit. It also believes that in order to
secure the best type of school spirit, the
students must take a part n and seek
to advance the interests of the school
organizations. Among the first in or-
der of importance of the many school
organizations are the literary societies.

It is cur plan to start a contest
among the literary societies In thi
col.imns of this paper in which ever
student in school may and should take
part. To the society securing the
largest nurmer of votes during the
contest, we will give a loving cup. We
have not yet decided on the prize to be
awarded the society securing the next
highest number of votes but it will be
something to be valued at not less than
three dollars.

In this contest, the ninth grade is to
be considered as one society, making
the four societies to enter the contest
Ninth Grade, Amateurian, Platonian
and Emersonian. If you do not belong
to: any of these four, useyout influence
for the society to which you are eligible
and which you prefer.

The subscription price for the rest
of the year is twenty-five cents, which
will entitle the subscriber to one hun-
dred votes. A special bulletin board
will be placed in the second floor hall
for the posting of results of the con-
test, and the ballot box will be put by
it.

The loving cup will be well worth a
little effort, and a prize which any or-
ganization should be proud of. This
is a contest in which all may enter and
in which the ninth grade will have as
much interest as the seniors.

I HI \\ ESIfcRN L 31 I i i -

'THE LAST LEAF'

(Continued from p;ige 85)

liant circle of men eminent in literary,
professional and social achievement
which his wit and kindly humor had so
long delighted was broken; Longfellow
had been dead twelve years and Whit-
tier two; he knew that h~ aLo must
soon fall into the long sleep.

Yet straight back from Boston.
addressed to'The Prpils of the Sev-
enth Grade, Gordon School," address
and letter written in the poet's own
neat, firm hand, unshaken by the
weakness of his eighty-four years,
came the beautiful letter here given.
Boston, April 6th, 1893.

My Dear Young Friends:

I have been reaiing your letters
and they have gi\en me much plea-
sure. I am glad to be told that I
have written what has instructed or
gratiaed you.

The poem called "The Last Leaf"
was written sixty-three years ago,
before most of your fathers, and
some of your grandfathers, were
born. I am almost the last leaf, my-
self, now, but I am glad to be re-
minded that the tree of life is full
of young leaf buds which will spread
in the sunshine of the twentieth cen-
tury, when the hough to which I am
still clinging is bare of its last year's
latest leaf.

Very sincerely yours,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

When the "children", now doctors'
lawyers, ministers, teachers and busy
house-mothers, --gather in the old
school-room, as they annually do, to
sing the old songs and recite the old
memory exercises, "The Last Leaf"
is still a chief favorite, and the re-
membrance of the gracious courtesy of
its gifted author is a happy memory
to them all.

May H. Prentice

RUINS OF MORMON TEMPLE

(Continued from page 85)
County, and here they were shot and
killed by a mob. After their death con-
fusion reigned at Nauvoo until Brig-
ham Young was chosen leader. He
decided that the Mormons must find
a new location far removed from civil-
ization where they might be safe from

further persecution. Accordingly the
people sold their land or exchanged it
for horses, wagons, and provisions,
and made preparation for their west-
ward migration. Before leaving
Nauvoo, they attempted to destroy the
temple, but succeeded only in wreck-
ing a part of it. A later colony of
French Icarians who settled in Nauvoo
about 1855, partly rebuilt the temple
but their work was 'aid waste by a
terrible storm. They then determined
to level the structure and u^e the stones
in ccnstructing other buildings. At
the present time while one may see
the homes of Joseph Smith and
Brigham Young in a fairly good state
of preservation, only a few stones of the
great temple remain.

But the Mormon people were not dis-
couraged by this failure. They pushed
westward over the 1000 miles of prai-
rie and mountain which lay between
them and the fertile valley of Salt
Lake which Brigham Young had se-
lected as their permanent home. In
five or six years several thousand had
dared the hardship of the long march
and the dangers from Indians in order
to reach the "Promised Land" and
"Zion." In 1853 they set to work once
more to build another temple which
should be the crowning glory of their
faith. The difficulties were great; for
many years there were no railroads
and the stone had to be hauled by ox
teams from the granite quarries of the
Wasatch Mountains twenty miles from
the city. It required four yoke of ox-
en four days to transport some of the
largest stones. But nothing could
daunt their perseverance and energy,
and in 1893 at a cost of $4,000,000,
the temple was completed. It is an
imposing stone structure, with massive
walls and clustering spires. In it are
held the most sacred services of the
Mormon faith and only those members
who are in good and regular standing
are allowed the privileges of the tem-
ple, while no Gentile may set foot
within its sacred walls.

The official photographer, Mr.
Johnson, made some exposures of
the first grades Friday. The pict-
ures will be used in the 1912 Se-
quel.

RESIGNATION NOT ACCEPTED

(Continued from pag« 85)
is over. In his connection with this
school he has made many friends
and has done much toward sleadily
raising the standards of the school to
their present high place.

His summer will be taken up with
the organization of a course of study,
visiting institutes, and chosing his fac-
ulty. In all his relations with the
Kent School the Courier wishes him
the fullest measure of success.

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Boys.

Tuesday, Jan. 23 — 12th vs. Nor-
mal, and Country School vs. 9th.

Wednesday, Jan. 24 — 9th vs. 10th,

Friday, Jan. 26 — 10th vs. 11th;
also Canton High School here.

Tuesday, Jan. 30 — C. S. Class vs.
12th.

Wednesday, Jan. 31 — 11th vs.
12th.

Friday, Feb. 2 — 9th vs. Normal;
10th vs. C. S. Class.

Tuesday, Feb. 6 — 9th vs. 12th.

Wednesday, Feb. 7 — C. S. Class
vs. 11th.

Friday, Feb. 9 — Normal vs. C. S.
Class; First team at Carthage.

Tuesday, Feb. 13 — 10th vs. Nor-
mal.

Wednesday, Feb. 14 — 11th vs. 9th

Friday, Feb. 16 — 10th vs. 12th.

Tuesday, Feb. 20 — Normal vs.
11th.

Friday, Feb. 23 — Championship
Game and Carthage College here.

Eligibility — Captains must pre-
sent an eligible list of players for
their respective classes, signed by
the principal and A. A. treasurer,
Mr. Ginnings.

Admission — 'By Athletic ticket or
15 cents.

Girls' Tournament Gaines, 4 p. m.

Jan. 24 — 9 and 10 vs. Normal.
Jan. 31— Cr. S. Class vs. 11 & 12.
Feb. 7—9 & 10 vs. 11 & 12.
Feb. 14 — 11 & 12 vs. Normal.

Mr. Drake has received fifty new
lantern slides illustrative of astronomy.
Some of these show the location of the
stars for all the months of the year.
Mr. Basset has also purchased about
fifty slides for his department which
deal with the subject of geology.

PRELIMINARY CONTEST

The Junior and Eleventh Grade
preliminary declamatory contest was
held last Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7:30
1). ni. There were six contestants
in each class, which made it very
interesting. All the readings were
good and were given in such a way
as to hold the attention of the audi-
ence throughout. The contest was
also a success financially, as quite a
la rue number were present.

Miss Nelle Brint'on won first place
in the Junior class, giving "Nancy's
Cinderella" by Brainard. Miss Anna
Seeker won second place, giving
"Dannie," anonymous.

In the eleventh grade Miss Ethel
Lucas was awarded the honors.
Her reading was "Making an Ora-
tion" by Crane. The Misses Helen
Miner and Hazel Wrigley tied for
second place, giving respectively,
"The Schoolmaster Beaten" by
Dickens, and "Rebecca's Journey"
by Wiggin.

The program follows:

Song, "I Know a Bank" Horn

Eleventh Grade Chorus.
Readings:

"Little Nell" Dickens

Bernice Lovely.

"The Schoolmaster Beaten". Dickens

Helen Miner.

"Boots" Anonymous

Mae Windisch.

"Making an Orator" Crane

Ethel Lucas.

"Rebecca's Journey" Wiggins

Hazel Wrigley.

"The Revenge" Tennyson

Claud Wilson.

Piano Duet

Hildreth McFeeters, Isabelle
Brooking.

"Emmy Lou" Martin

Lei a Terr ill.

"God of the Open Air". . . .VanDyke

Mary VanEtten.

"Nancy's Cinderella" Brainard

Nelle Brinton.

"Quo Vadis" Watson

Frances Reeder.

"Dannie" Anonymous

Anna Seeker.

"The Canyon Flower" Conner

Lora Wilson.

"Morning Kong" Barnby

Junior Chorus.

Canton High School vs. Our Team
in the gym tomorrow evening. The
Canton boys are our friends and will
doubtless show us some good play-
ing, although the Normalites have it
in their minds to win.

The Western Courier

MUCH IN i EREST AROUSED

The Senior Play "As You like It"
is already creating quite a stir an
the citizens of the neighboring to\
Mary Covert, v/ho teaches in Colusa,
asks Mr. Hunsh for copies of "As You
Like It" for use in her school and she
says she will bring some of the larger
pupils over to the performance.

The Bardolph High School has ask-
ed for information concerning train
connections, thus showing their interest.

One gentleman of this city has
asked for seven tickets. From this we
have a right to judge there will be a
full house Feb. 16.

The Open Country Club, No. 2 met
in Society Hall Tuesday at 3:45 for a
short program. Music was given by a
Girls' Chorus, Mr. Hursh talked on
Standardization, Mr. McGilvrey en
Advantages of Standardization and
and Miss Grote on the Purposes of
the Club.

The Parlin and Orendorff Plow
company of Canton has presented the
Courier with a large calendar adver-
tising their farming implements.
Thanks.

Superintendent C. E. Joiner of the
city schools of Monmouth was visiting
the school Wednesday of last week
and interviewing some membnrs of the
Senior Class for prospective candi-
dates for teachers in Monmouth.

The Emers held their regular meet-
ing in Society Hall Thursday. Two
new members were taken into the
Society and plans laid to increase the
attendance at the meetings. The
program was a good one, the debate
being of special interest because of
the heated enthusiasm of the debaters.
The Emers are at work now; come in
and hear them.

Miss Emma Callihan of the Senior
Class went to Monmouth this week to
teach the remainder of the school
year. She will have charge of de
partmental work in the seventh and
eighth grades in one of the best
schools in the city. She intends to

take sufficient v/ork by correspondence
and otherwise to enable he
year.

F:ank Litchfield, 1906, in a lei er

to Ed De Camp says he is now locat-
ed in Columbus, C^
ployed by the Ce'^rgia Show
Works

The baseball activities were for-
mally aroused by a meeting of fans
in Coach Walrath's room last week.
About twenty-five aspirants pn
ed themselves for the initial lecture.
The prospects for a fast squid ate
promising and with the fir:-;t signs of
spring the old diamond will be
pounded into shape again for the
great American game.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB. ILL. FEB. 1. 1912.

NUMBER XXIV

SPECIAL

PLAY AND HOME-COMING

EDITION

THIS IS THE

NORMAL

WHERE THE PLAYS

ARE GIVEN.

WHY HAVE DRA-
MATICS IN SCHOOL?

Some of the Benefits To Be De-
rived from Dramatization.

Some of the more apparent bene-
fits to be deriverd from dramatiza-
tion are:

(a) It leads to the intensive study
of the play as literature. No one
can be satisfied with less than the
best insight into the matter that is
possible to him when he is expected
to put it into living expression. The
student feels a comparatively weak
responsibility in preparation of mat-
ter meiely to be read, but when he
is to give his whole self to it and
not merely his utterance, he is con-
scious of a very different attitude.
Be then searches the matter out
and seeks to discover all that is in
it.

(hi It gives valuable training in
getting definite ideas , and in that
leads to the habit, rarely found in
students, of getting clear concepts in
literature. It seem difficult for the
average student to study a matter
that must be constructed out of his

own mind-stuff. This leads to

(c) the training of the imagina-
tion — constructive imagination. In
this work all the conditions of action,
correlation of time and place, condi-
tions, fitness cf parts and the effect
to be produced must have place and
measure.

(d) It aids much in mental and
bodily self-control and hence adds
grace to the body and quality to the
voice, very important phases of hu-
man culture, which aie very inade-
quately provided for in even the best
courses of study. This matter of
bodily poise or the graces of mind
manifested in bodily action is far
more important than we have yet
thought it to be.

(e) Dramatic practice adds no
small value to one's social responsi-
bilities, and in this is very impor-
tant in the culture of young people.
Nothing in one's school life will do
more to relieve timidity, self-con-
sciousness and give one the freedom
of his own ability. The one unfor-
tunate thing about it is that those
who most need it rarely ever get
such practice. S. B. H.

'PUTTING ON" A PLAY

Some of the Features To Be Con-
sidered in "Putting on" a Play.

In addition to the actual staging
there are several other interesting
and important features to be con-
sidered in "putting on" a big play.
One is the music. For sorre of the
Shakespearian plays there is com-
plete incidental music. For instance,
the beautiful ".Midsummer Night's
Dream" sccre by .Mendelssohn, which
includes the well known Nocturne
and Wedding March. For most plays,
however, the music mast be selected
and specially arranged. We expect
the music to be suggestive, and it is
most effective in producing the de-
sired atmosphere. For Hamlet,
Greig's "Peer Gynt" music was used
largely, with some Dani-h marches
and Chopin's Funeral March. For
"As You Like It," the two songs of
the play. "Under the Greenwrod
Tree," and "Blow, Blow, Thou Win-
try Wind," will be used, and in ad-
dition some old English Glees for
male voices will be introduced. Noth-
ing gives a play a better start than
a stirring overture. I think it is
even more helpful than the three
mysterious "knocVs" that are sun-
posed to be given before the curtain

The Wesi ekn ( !oub u b

THE PLACE WHERE

THE CUT-DOOR THEATRE

WILL BE CONSTRUCTED.

SURPLUS

'AS YOU LIKE IT" FUNDS

WILL BE SAVED

FOR THIS PURPOSE.

goes up.

Another phase of the work is the
costuming, lighting and "makeup."
Ihe costumes sho Id le o t i ed
from a reliable ccm.ajy, insur nj
historic and artistic correctness. Up-
on the lighting effects depends much
of the variety of the sc?nie features
of the play, especial! yif there is not
much change in actual scenery. The
lighting also helps in producing st-
n osj here. The "make-up" must be
carefully studied and plenty of time
allowed for it on the night of the
performance — at least two hours.

Still another most important part-
of the production is the scene'y. It
must be studied not so much from
ku§ estirns from other productions
as from your own possibilities and
opportunities. The whole i lay,
scenes and acts, musi be arranged
to meet your limitations in scene-
shifting. Something new and appro-
priate must be worked out, especial-
ly if yon expeci the same people to
attend your plays year after year.
This Is particularly true of the open-

ing scene. People appreci.te a new
setting mere at first, and do not
mind the old after they become in-
terested in the action.

Last, but not at all least, is the
advertising and advance sale of
tickets. The advertising must be-
gin early and continue steadily,
reaching a climax, if possible, in the
opening of the seat sale, for what
will it profit if you work up a good
play and have no aud.'ence?. Some
little phrase from the play can often
be used as the nucleus for the adver-
tising thought, and lively sa'e of
tickets as soon as the board is open-
ed is the best possible advertisement
for the last week.

I enjoy every phase of the work
connected with staging a play, es-
pecially if it be one of Shakespeare's.

SUSAN B. DAVIS.

A letter from Mr. Euich, f rmeiiy
of the Department of Manual Ti awn-
ing here, brings the welcome news
that he is steadily recovering, and]
will be able to begin teaching again '
next fall. He says: "We get the
Courier and are glad to note the
growth in the school as indicated by
the news from week to week."

The gymnasium is very popular
place with the boys every evening
frcm four o'clock until five-;hiity.
Every grade has one or two basket-
ball teams and there are generally
enough "scrubs" to make another on
short notice. The track, chest
weights, medicine ball, and the box-
ing gloves are kept in almost con-
stant employment by boys ranging
from the fourth grade to the senior
class. This lroks g"od. It is qu'te
a relief to those who have studied
hard throughout the day to s - >end a<
free hour in the gym, even though!
they do nothing but look on.

The Western Courier

TWELFTH NIGHT

The Senior Class of 1909 Presents
Our First Shakespearian Play.

In Feburary of 1909 the senior
class, under .Miss Davis' dliei'ticn,
presented "Twelfth N ght." It was
the first time a senior class in this
school had attempted a Shapespear-
ean play. .Many feared that those
who had attended plays previo.isly
gi\en in our school, would not care
so much for Shakespeare as some
other play writers. But on the eve-
ning of February 19, both Miss Da-
\ is and the players were more than
satisfied with the large audience.
The people were sufficiently inter-
ested in this style of play that we
felt justified in presenting "Mid-
Summer Night's Dream" the next
year.

Though the play took much time
and study, we, who had the pleasure
of being on the cast, feel that our
enjoyment and training more than
repaid us for the time spent. The
attempt to forget self and live the
part of Viola was an invaluable expe-
rience for me. Also it helped me
to appreciate, understand, and en-
jou Shakespeare as I had not done
before.

Since 1909 two other plays have
been given. Each one was consid-
ered better than the previous ones.
So this year we'll epect "As You
Like It" to be the "best yet."

— LAVINIA STINSON.

Wori has been raceived frrm Miss
Irene Bassett. who has just taken
chargs of the Domestic Science work
in Buda, Texas. The work is just be-
gun ai'd she is planning the equipme.it
and course of study, which includes
both cooking and sewing. Her classes
include those from seventh to eleventh
grades and two hours in the week a
class of the ladies of the town.

The town, so Miss Bassett says, is
small but very enthusiatic over this
new line of work.

The Senior class has been engaged in
preparing some interesting adaptations
from poems for the lower grades.

FEBRUARY 16, 1912.

The Western Courier

MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM— 1910.

PLAYING A COMEDY

PART EXPRESSED

Some Things a Comedian Thinks
and Feels "Worded".

Keen pleasure is enough to derive
from any recreative ur dertaking, but
when there is combined with such
enjoyment, a minute study of the
highest type in English literature and
an acquaintance with human charac-
teristics of exceptional variety,-- the
resultant benefit is incommensurable.
Heroes and villains touch superficiali-
ties-- the un-jsual passion of sentimen-
tal puppetry- in which the meritorious
qualities are subordinated to the ro-
mantic exigencies. But the comedian
operates in a quite different atmos-
phere. He finds himself continually
delving into the mingled vagaries of
human emotion-- vanity, jealousy and

pride; interpreting the awkwardness of
personal misfortune, exceptional acci-
dents, and in a word all of the unusual
and laughable pecul'arit'es of the race,
h is from this multifarious study that
the great wor h of dramatic work arises,
and here the comedian's share is cer-
tainly not incomparable to that of "Leo,
King of Beasts." — Nice Bottom,

Midsummer Night's Dream

WILL DELIVER AN ORATION

Mr. Vernon M Welsh, a student of
Knox College will deliver an oration
in connection with the declamatory
contest to-morrow night. Mr. Welsh
is the winner of first place in the ora-
torical contest held in the state be-
tween the small colleges and will re-
present Illinois in the inter-state. We
will be very glad to hear Mr. Welsh
and his work ought to be an inspira-
tion to our orators.

CANTONvs NORMAL

Our Boys Meet Defeat at the

Hands of t.\e Canton Hich

School 1 earn.

Last Friday e.e.iing Jan. 2 0th, our
boys again ^.et de.eat at the hands of
the fast Canton High School team.-j
A large crowd of "looters" saw the
game and did their part in support-
ing the home team. The Canton
boys were a fast bunch and played a
clean game throughout. In all our
games with them we have received
a square deal, and in no way do we
consider it a disgrace to be beaten by
such a team.

Our boys played their usual stendy
game and did well when we consid-i
er the handicap caused by Huey be-
ing out of the game because of an
injured hand.

The lineup:

Canton. Macomb.

Eklon L.F Host

Eyerly R.F Sorensen

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HAMLET— 1911.

Stevenson C Russell

Peed, Stickler. . L.G Salisbury

Regan, Eklon. . R. G.. . Imes.Bennett

Referee, Eair: Time-', e per,

IVhite. Score-keeper, McCall.

Score — Canton, 38; Normal, 22.

A regular tournament game was
ilso played between the tenth and
Jleventh grade boys. These teams
ft-ere very evenly matched and played
i close and exciting game. The score
it the end cf the game was: Tens,
L4; Elevens, 12.

ATHLETICS THAT UPLIFT

As a result of several year3 associ-
ation in athletics, there exists between
this school and the Canton High
School a very congenial fee'ing. The
jame last Friday was clean and fair
in every respect. The Canton boys
showed themselves to be a manly
Dunch. They beat us fairly, but our
soys do not feel at all chagrined over
their defeat because they played well.
This friendly relation exists between
schools when each respects the rights
af the other. Canton has always
been respectful toward us and we have

a deep respect for them.

Other schools have similar places in
our list of friends. Carthage College,
an old time rival in athletics, is a con-
firmed friend in every respect. Sev-
eral ether schools that ha\e ccme in
contact with us also deserve o .r
warmest friendship. Taking all this
into consideration, perhaps inter-
school athletics have been very profit-
able, and are entirely desirable.

TO REVISE COURSE OF STUDY

A committee has recently been
appointed to revise the Illinois state.
course of study. This committee is
made up of various faculty members
of the normal schools, county superin-
tendents and superintendents of in-
struction. The members from our
own faculty are Mr. McGilvrey, Mr.
Johnson, Mr. Dickerson and Miss
Hamilton. The committee is divided
into groups for various subjects, Mr.
McGilvrey being in the group revising
the Morals and Manners course, Mr.
Johnson the Physiology course, Mr.

D:cke-son the Hictory c^u-;e, and
Miss Hamilton the Reading course.
The new course will be ready for i..e
at the op3ningof the common schoc's
next S.pte nber. Incidentally it inter-
ests us in that it is the basis of study
of our Country School Class.

Miss Grote has been employed for
some time in mailing the journal of
proceedings of the Illinois State
Teachers' Association for 1910 to
teachers thruout the state. The Jour-
nal is quite interesting to anyone in-
terested in educational problems for it
contains several addresses by educat-
ors well known in the educational
world. Miss Grote has been secretary
of the Association for several years
and was re-elected at the last meet-
ing for the coming year.

The tenth grade class in Drawing
has finished some artistic brass lamp
shades. Brass watch fobs are to be
made next.

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THIS IS

THE CAST THAT

WILL GIVE THE

PLAY.

Ben West, Victor Wood, Harlow Wyne, Theron Chaney, Paul Leach, Claud Wilson, Ross Stephens.

Alfred Sorensen, George Salisbury, Clarence Jones, De Witt Dobson, Lester Smith, Will Jeffries.

Guy Hoyt, Christie Darke, Howard Thompson, Ursula Kennedy, Evelyn Wyne, George Mape:-,

Eva Finlay, Ralph SwitZ'r.

ARE YOU COMING

BACK TO THE PLAY?

Come Back and See Old Friends
and a Good Play.

The annual Senior Play is a home-
coming occasion. Are you coming
home on February 16th? The Courier
has been informed that many old
students will come back for a day.
People whose faces have grown stern
with the cares of life are to be wel-
comed again. The boys and girls who
played in "She Stoops to Conquer",
"A Russian Honeymoon", "Twelfth
Night", "Midsummer Night's Dream"
and "Hamlet" will recall the old times
when the curtain rises on the first
scene "As you Like it ".

"Should auld acquaintance be

forgot,"
Come back to the Senior play.

TICKETS FOR THE PLAY

The ticket sale for "As You Like
It" will open Saturday morning, Febru-
ary 10th, at McClellan's book store.
Seats 50 cents. Mail orders will be
filled in the order in which they are
received.if cash accompanies the order.
No tickets will be held without money
after Thursday noon, February 15th.

SOMETHING ELSE TO SEE

Mustaches vary greatly. They gen-
erally range in color from red to char-
coal black; however, some are in a
class by themselves. Several in this
school have the color of a superannu-
ated toothbrush. Mustaches also vary
in density. Some are as dense as the
population in China while others are
about as thick as pin feathers on a
singed chicken. Mustaches are trim-
med in various shapes. The German
variety is long and slender with an
artistic curve near the extreme ends.
The most sanitary variety is the close

cropped one.

All are more cr less insanitary anJ
every owner should see to it that hia
is thoroughly fumigated at least twica
a year. Mustaches are cf r.o specia
economic importance but they hide
many large noses. They are mainty
masculine. Occasionally a woman i£
able to start one but she is as anxious
to exterminate it as some of the Nor-
mal boys are to cultivate them.

Misses Finlay, Stephens and Fulk-
erson of the Senior class have made
some very handsome, artistic poster;
for "As You Like It."

Several songs have been submitter,
in response to the offer of a 19L'
Sequel offered by the Oratorical Boan
for a good oratorical song.

LEST YOU FORGET IT, THli
COURIER WANTS YOU OIM
ITS SUBSCRIPTION LIST.

FEBRUARY 16, 1912

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IY TRIP TO

THE PHILIPPINES

^iibur O. Pendaris of Last Year' 3

Cluss Gives an Account of

His Trip to the Islands.

luul

l am writing this in my Philippine
ome. I am here, peaceful, conteat-
d. and happy, suirounded by all the
iocessities, most ol the comforts,
nd a few of the luxuries oi' life. Yet
ay surroundings are for the most
art strange and new to me, ami
nostly different from those to whit h
ha\e been accustomed. My mucha-
ho has finished his work and gone
ii t along the river to play, while I
m left aione to do my writing. In-
tead of the hrnk of the auto I hear
he rattle of the corromata as it joss
long the gravelled street; instead of
le English tongue, I hear only Tage-
og articulations from the pliza be-
ow me. The soft breeze brings with
t the delicate perfume of tropical
il.om and foliage; the chirp of the
izzard, and the cry of an uneasy
'arret in a neighboring tree supplant
he song of the cricket; and the
sounds of rurt.1 life I hear are the
owing of the cara" oa, the cry of the
id, and the gruff grunt of the Phil-
rpine hog. The table upon which I
vrite is of Spanirh origin; my chair
s a native prrduction; my lamp hails
rom China, but I am burning genu-
ine Rockefeller oil, which casts a fa-
miliar glow over my surroundings
2nd must form the connecting link
aetween my past and present.

To begin this narrative takes me
back over some four or five eventful
months, and nearly ten thousand
miles of terrestrial expanse, to the
rity of Macomb, on the evening of
May Sth, when the 6:42 bore me
away from the Normal crowd that
had so kindly assembled to see me
off. I changed cars in Galesburg that
night and started westward. Not
caring to s'eep, I sat gazing out of
the open window as we sped over the
broad Iowa prairies, bathed in the
calm silvery moonlight of the warm
summer night.

The next morning I reached Coun-
cil Bluffs just in time to miss the
Overland Limited for San Francisco.
This, however, not being a new ex-
perience for me, failed to cause me
any great anxiety. I swung onto an-
other train that was just pulling out
of the station and rode across to
Omaha, where I succeeded in over-

'Ihi

taking the t
off from nu

of the flnesl trains of the Union Pa-
ci"c, and one thai ran clear through
from ( hicago to San Fran isco with-
out a change or a long s oj. Its ac-
commodations wire of the best and
in all it was a train wi rth running tj
catch.

We were soon en our way up the
Piatt river, whi h we followed until
it shrank to a sandy ditch among
the sagebrush. The e?sttrn half of
Nebraska presented a very pleasant
appearance. Farmers were busy
plowing and planting, and all the
coutry was (lcthecl in the fresh ver-
dure of returning summer. The cen-
tral part grew gradually worse, and
finally merged into the great serri-
desert region which occupies all the
western part of the state. Here the
green alfalfa fields and a few forlorn |
farm houses alone broke the brown j
expanse of the barren soil; and the j
monotonous horizon was broken only
by the distant bluffs of the meander-
ing Piatt, and the numerous wind-
mills which reared themselves at ev-
ery semblance of civilization. Each
farm house had several clustered
around it; every hamlet boasted a
score; they were present in every
schoolyard andin a few instances they
had been erected in graveyards as in-
dustrious monuments to the immor-
tal breezes of Nebraska. There were
windmills of all shapes and sizes.
Some were of steel and stood with
rigid erectness, while others were of
wood and stood on one foot with
their arms akimbo. Some stood
firmly planted at their posts, and
some were tied down like unruly an-
imals. Some ran quietly and smooth-
ly, but many screaked as if their
bearings were as dry and hot as the
parchine wind that fanned their tat-
tered sails.

Just before nightfall we passed in-
to Wyoming, where the alfalfa fie'ds
gave way to wastes of sage brush,
and the only signs of civilization were
an occasional flock of sheep, tended
by a lone shepherd and his dogs.
Towns were few and far be-
tween. Our route through this state
lay along close to and nearly parallel
with the southern boundary. Next
morning we awoke near the middle
of the state to find the air crisp and
cool, and the ground covered with a
light snow. The country here was
hilly and the soil rocky, sandy, and
streaked with alkali. Away off in
the distance could be seen snow-cap-
ped mountains lifting their dazzling

summits Into the clouds, we crossed
the Great Divide, from where the
ri ers run eastward to the Atlantic
and westward to the Pacific, and be-
gan to descend into a mere prosper-
ous loo! ing country. We followed the
Wei er river fr in where it begins its
course as a brooilet leaping down
from the Wyoming hills, until it had
become a rushing mountain stream
pouring over its rocky bed and on to
where it becomes a peaceful river,
flowing through a wide, fertile,
fruit-gi owing valley cf northern
Utah.

We reached Ogden al out two
o'clock in the afternoc n. Here 1
stopped off and at once ran down to
Salt Lake City, where I spent the re-
mainder of the afternoon visiting the
rest important places of this beauti-
j ful and interesting town, the handi-
work ard Mecca of the Mormon.

That night I took a train for Colo-
ralo, and as we ran along nearly
raral'el to the Wasatch mountains
they presented a grand sight, tower-
ing up into the heavens, with their
snow-clad summits flashing in the
moonlight. After spending a couple
of days in Colorado, I returned to
Ogden in time to resume my journey
to the coast on Saturday afternoon.

May 13th. — Leaving Ogden, we
crossed the Great Salt Lake over the
Lucin cutoff, one of the wonders of
modern engineering skill. This is a
novel trip; an ocean voyage
on wheels. You go clear out
of sight of land and yet re-
main on terra firma. You enjoy all
the pleasures of an ocean voyage
v ithout suffering any of its inconve-
niences. We left the lake, with its
ccol and invigorating salt breezes, to
enter the hot, dusty expanse of the
Salt Lake Desert. We crossed this
desert and entered Nevada just at
dark.

Our route through this state lay
for the most part through a moun-
tainous country bare and rocky, but
it was practically all traversed dur-
ing the night, giving us but a limited
chance to view the country. The next
morning we made a short stup at the
historic town of Reno, then crossed
over into California and began to
slowly climb the high Sierras. We
were soon up to the snow line, where
we began to wend our way through
miles of snow sheds, where the snow
still lay piled up so high on either
side that we were unable to see out.
We wound our way up, around and
above Lake Donner, a magnificent
sheet of water nestled among the
topmost peaks of the range.

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Having reached the sumn.it we be-
gan a rapid descent toward the Pa-
cific. The snow-clad leaks, clothed
with a few sentinel pines, gave way
to broad slopes densely forested with
fir and redwood. We ran along the
edge of Blue (anon, where we coull
look almcst straight down f r two
thousand feet upon a stream that
looked like a silver thread wound
along the bottom of this immense
forest-clad ditch. As we reached the
lowlands the country tock on a semi-
tropical appearance. We hurried
down the Sacramento Valley, passed
California's capital city, reached
Oakland, and were ferried across to
San Francisco just as the sun was
sinking into the billows beyond the
Golden Gate.

I spent the following day taking
in the sights of this hustling city,
and completing the arrangements
for my ocean trip; and at one o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, May 16th, I
found myself on board the good ship
Manchuria, anxiously waiting for
the last farewells. An immense
throng was at the wharf to see us
off. The Chinese sailors were hur-
rying over the decks, completing ar-
rangements for sailing, Chinese cab-
in boys were busy stowing away
baggage, and friends were crowding
on deck for a few last farewells be-
fore the gang plank was withdrawn.
At last the word was given, and
with the prolonged waving of thou-
sands of handkerchiefs, and the re-
peted snapping of hundreds of cam-
eras, we pulled slowly away from
the pier. We sailed northward
around the city, passed out of the
bay, and turned westward into a
stormy sea. A small group of us
stood in a sheltered spot on deck,
and watched the shores of our na-
tive land slowly sink into the dis-
tance, wondering in our hearts if
we should ever see them again, and
realizing as never before how we
loved "The Land of the Free and the
Home of the Brave." But with the
merciless tossing of the ship these
patriotic emotions were gradually
superceded by a more violent one,
and many of as withdrew to our
state rooms. That night I retired
absolutely unable to appreciate being
rocked in the cradle of the deep, and'
for the next two days I took my
meals on trial in the state room and
was indisposed to venture further
out than the after deck.

Our course lay to the southwest,
and ere long we ran into a calm sea
and balmy weather, with which we
were blessed throughout the entire

\( ya I-. 'i Len, one by one, I < e
who had be n hibernatijg in their
cells, came maichinj; on to make
their debut upon the upper desk, an 1
the real pleasures of the trip besan.
We had a crowd of about one hun-
dred first-class paseengeis, as jelly a
bunch as was ever colle ted, and the
Manchuria is one of the three best
equipped and largest vessels on the
Pacific. Our trip was one continual,
prolonged picnic. There were ath-
letic contests of ail sorts, baseball
games, shuffle board tournaments,
concerts, entertainments, caid par-
ties, candy pulls, dress dinneis, mas-
querade balls, and dozens of ether
amusements with which to pass
away the time. When tired of the
more strenuous amusements, we
found pleasure in lounging along the
rail and gazing out to sea. Schools
of brilliant hued flying fish would
leap up in the wake of the ship and,
spreading their gauzy fins, skim
away over the waves to a place of
safety. Occasionally we would see
a school of pur poises wallowing
along through the water, or a whale
spouting lazily in the distance, as we
silently glided over the glassy sea.
By night it was interesting to watch
the brilliant phosphorescence of the
agitated water in the wake of the
vessel, and to see new constellations
rising up in the southern sky, while
old familiar ones sank from view be-
yond the northern horizon. And
then, after a strenuous day, it was a
rare pleasure to be rocked to sleep
by the gentle motion of the vessel as
she gracefully glided over the gentle
swells of the restless sea.

In six days we reached Honolulu,
where we spent a day on shore. We
then headed northwest for Japan and
reached Yokohoma ten days later.
After spending five days in the Is-
land Empire we left for Manila,
where we arrived safely on June
10th, having made the excellent rec-
ord of reaching that port only
twenty-five days after leaving San
Francisco.

In Manila I spent five days, getting
assigned, receiving instructions, and
outfitting; and at dark, on the even-
ing of June fifteenth, set out on a
coekelshell for my station in the
provinces. This trip, in some re-
spects, proved the most interesting
part of my entire voyage. We had
just gotten outside of Manila Bay
when a storm struck us. The sea
rose into mountains and the little
boat rolled and pitched as though
she were possessed. The rain came
'I riving through the rent canvasses

The lower deck became a
ir.iniature lake and occasionally a
Mg wave i . . upon the up-

Pi i deck Th< < el v. as not
and the cot*
upon which v.e were trying to sleep,
together with the tables, chain,
boxes, and other movable parapher-
nalia, promenaded around th deck
as if playing pussy wants a corner;
I had imagined myself seasick when
heaving Kan Kianis-o, but I now
concluded that my experience there
was far too mild to be classified by
that important term. Most of the
sailors abandoned their pons and
joined the water-soaked squad, who
who hugging the rail, anl casting
their bread upon the waters ,and
all it was a most impressive night.
The sea continued rough for two
days, but on Sunday morning, June
18th, as we drew near the palm-
crested island that was to be my
future home, the sun arose in un
clouded splendor upon a calm am
glassy ocean. We dropped ancho
just off the coral reef. They lowerei
the ship's boat, rowed me to shore
piled my few earthly possessions ou
on the sands of the beach, and lef
me to my fate. Here I stood some
what as did Robinson Crusoe on tha
memorable morn after his miracu
lous escape from an angry ocean.
My six weeks' journey had at last
come to its end. I had reached my
destination, and stood face to face
with a situation that was "Koct, hog,
or die." I was alone, ihe only
white man upon an island of 50,000]
people, whose language, tempera-
ments and customs were absolutely
new to me. None knew me, and but
few could understand my language.
I was indeed a stranger in a foreign
land. As I turned to meet my new
situation, and take up a new life, !•
cast a hurried glance out to sea upon,
the ship that was fast fading away
in the distance, and paused to reflect
for a moment upon the life I had
left behind me. And then for per-
haps thirty seconds I would have
felt fully as comfortable back stroll-
ing down the ravine with my hands
in my pockets, whistling, "Normal,
We Sing Thy Praises."

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., FEB.8 , 1912.

NUMBER XXV

RESULTS OF THE

STRAW BALLOT

A Straw Ballot Is Cast to Deter-
mine the School's Choice
for President.

At the request of Eureka College a
straw ballot was taken last Tuesday at
chapel, to find out the presidential pre-
ference of the students and faculty.
Similar ballots are being taken at all
the colleges and normal schools in the
state. No electioneering was dene,
so the vote is a fair expression of such
conditions as exist.

PARTY PREFERENCE.REPUBLICAN
First Choice

men women total

Roosevelt 60 73 133

La Follette 19 35 54

Taft 10 22 32

Wilson 23 5

Clark 1 1 2
226
Second Choice

La Follette 26 40 66

Roosevelt 13 30 43

Taft 26 20 46

Wilson 16 20 36

Clark 5 12 17

Folk 3 3

Cummins I 3 4

Harrison 1 I

PARTY PREFERENCE, DEMOCRAT
First Choice

men women total

Wilson 30 28 58

Clark 12 17 29

Roosevelt 49 13

La Follette 44 6

Bryan 24 6

Taft 2 2
114
Second Choice

Wilson 10 19 29

Clark 12 16 28

Roosevelt 5 11 16

Bryan 1 6 7

La Follette 10 4 14

Folk 24 6

Harmon 32 5

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"AS YOU LIKE IT.'

DEFEATED? YES.

DISCOURAGED? NO.

Boys' Basket Ball Team Loses to

Abingdon. — Girls Play a

Game with Hedding.

The basketball team went to Abing-
don last Friday night, hoping to defeat
the High School team of that city but
came home without any show of
scalps dangling at its belt. They met
the enemy on the Hedding College
floor and lost to the fast Abingdon
players 57 to 14. The strange sur-
roundings made defeat more likely but
the boys admit that they were out-
classed.

The game was not lost thru any
shirking, because every Normal player
worked and womed hard. The team
is not discouraged and will work hard
to win from Carthage Colleg* to-
morrow evening at Carthage. Surely
few athletic teams have as much for-
titude as our team does. They play not
for the vain glory of winning but for
the real enjoyment and benefit the
game gives. Altho they will not be re-
membered as a team from the stand
point of victories they will have re-
ceived the good that the game offers.
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CLASS

DECLAM-

ATO Y CONTEST

Miss Nina Spicer Wins First Place

with "How the Old Hoss

Won the Race".

The final Class Declamatory Con-
test was held Friday night in the
auditorium. The program was open-
ed with a selection by the orchestra.
The first reader was Miss Nina Wal-
ters of the ninth grade, who read
"The Traitor's Deathbed." Her se-
lection was good and her interpreta-
tion was also first-class. Consider-
ing that she was the youngest among
the contestants, her work deserves
much favorable comment.

The Country School Training
Class was represented by Miss Nina
Spicer. She read "How the Old Hoss
Won the Race," by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, very satisfactorily, and won
the decision of the Judges for first
place.

Miss Nell Brinton of the junior
class gave "Nancy's Cinderella." Her
work was pleasing and found much
favor with the audience.

The eleventh grade was represent-
ed by Miss Ethel Lucas. She read a
very amusing selection entitled,
"Making an Orator.

Miss Sarah Stocking represented
the twelfth grade and won second
place with Riley's poem, "Knee Deep
in June."

The tenth grade was represented
by Miss Grace Wilson, who read
"Connor," a little sketch of Irish pa-
thos. Her Interpretation was good
and her manner pleasing.

The judges gave Miss Spicer first
place and Miss Stocking second place,
although there was a difference of
only 1.7 per cent in the marking,
Miss Brinton received third. This
means that Miss Spicer won one
point for the country school class In
the inter-class contest in declama-
tion, oratory, essay, debate, and mu-
sic. Class finals in the four remain-
ing features of the contest will be
held later. The class receiving the
most points will be presented with a
picture by the Oratorical Association.

A very interesting feature of the
program Friday night was the ora-
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Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Allely

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platoniaii Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
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Miss Davis
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EDITORIAL

Faculty members are peculiar crea-
tures somewhat resembling ordinary
people. They are supposed to be
great leaders and models for the child-
ren of the school. In order to under-
stand us better, they meet once per
week to find out all they can about
our meanness. Sometimes they think
they know all about our bad tricks but
are generally mistaken. They are sup-
posed to know how much we smoke
and where we spend our evenings, but,
thank heaven, information is quite
scarce on these subjects.

A faculty member is also supposed
to act dignified in the presence of his
subjects. He should not smoke, chew
swear, or use bad grammar in our pre-
sence because we know enough "de-
viltry" already. Faculty members
should set a good exanple of politeness
to the boys and girls. The men should
tip their hats to the ladies when it is
not too cold or when they are not too
bald headed, so we will "catch on"

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and do likewise. The ladies should
lead the fashions for the benefit of the
girls. Any new departure in clothes
should be worn by the facu'ty ladies
so the Dean can see if they are fit
for the girls to wear.

Faculty members are also supposed
to teach on some occasions, Inciden-
tally they are supposed to substitute
history, literature, geography, music
and science for baseball, football, prize-
fighting and other kindred sports in the
brain of wayward lads and inspire them
to be great souls.

The happiest tlvng a faculty mem-
ber has to do is to sign the pay roll
which he does upon the first invitation.
When the check is received he thinks
how large a pile it would make in pen-
nies, compares itv/iththe pile he spent
at the college and university, and
then prays to be allowed to live long
enough to get out of debt.

DOCTOR BUTLER HERE

Doctor Nathaniel Butler of the Uni-
versity of Chicago visited the school
Wednesday of last week. His busi-
ness was to investigate the Normal
Academy which is preliminary to its
appearance on the University of
Chicago special list of secondary
schools. Doctor Butler spoke in
Chapel and explained the purpose of
his visit.

The Chicago University, while it
accepts students from any High School
or Acedemy accredited by the North
Central Association of Colleges and
Universities has special requirement
for admission to a private group.
Schools in this class receive some con-
cessions from the University that other
schools do not. The speaker mention-
ed only one, which was the reduced tui-
tion fees to teachers in these schools
who attend the University during the
summer.

Besides his remarks explaining his
visit he gave some very sound thought
on the whole problem of education.
The three chief values of education
were discussed in terms that the
youngest student could comprehend.

"NICK" IS HEARD FROM
Mr. Ross NSchi frcm

the W. I. S. N. S. Acaderr.y last year
and teaches this year in Perry ill.
Hs has complete charge cf thirtj
pils in the seventh and e'gl.th grades
and teaches four subjects in the
school. In a letter to Mr Hurih he
enclosed seme composition work i
by one of his pupils. This pupil finish-
ed her composition which she called
"A Pleasure Trip" with the following
little poem.

Up hill, down hi!,

Over rock and rills

Thru water we made our way,

On an afternoon of an autumn day.

Rocks we found of various shapes,
^nd a vine of almost withered wild

grapes,
Persimmons and black-haws, they too

we found,
But they unfortunately were on a high

mound,

And then we moved homeward as

tired as could be.
And dirty too, as everyone could see,
But each one satisfied with what he

had done,
We all could prove we had lots of

fun."

Edna Lipcaman

"THE WITNESS FOR THE
DEFENSE."

(BUT IN SPITE OF THIS ARGU-
MENT CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE
CLUB HAVE LATELY REMOVED
THEIR MUSTACHES.)

In growing a mustache many manly
qualities are made apparent. The
growth of the beard is by far the most
important quality which distinguishes
a man from a boy. It has always been
the loyal purpose of this school to in-
troduce and support any contest which
will promote manly qualities. There-
fore it is the desire of the mustache
club that a kindred feeling should exist
between us and the advocator of other
manly practices. True enough there
are many styles and designs, but vari-
ety is one thing which makes "art"
pleasing Your reason will easily con-

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rince you that the "Utile mustache'; is
armore sanitary than the fake hair,
•ats, ect., which find tenement in the
jolden locksof our women admirers(?)
At present we're not obliged to pur-
:hase mustache cups, but we're com-

One cf the "Club".

DECLAMATORY CONTEST

(Continued from page 97)
tion on "Capital and Labor," by Mr.
Vernon M. Welsh of Knox College.
Mr. Welsh has won the contest in
oratory among the small colleges in
the state, and will represent Illinois
In an inter-state contest to be held
In St. Paul, Minnesota, sometime
soon. Mr. Welsh pleased his hearers
with his well-framed thought, his
Ease of delivery, and his earnestness.
A. synopsis of his oration cannot be
given here, but his central theme
was the strife between employer and
employee, caused by envy, greed, and
jealousy. He consented to speak
here at that time for the experience
he would gain by appearing before a
Btrange audience, and the audience
was also fortunate in having the op-
portunity to hear an orator of that
character.

RESULTS OF STRAW BALLOT

(Continued from page 97)

PARTY PREFERENCE,PROHIBITION
First Choice:

MEN WOMEN TOTAL

7 8

3 4 7

3 3

1 1

La Follette
Wilson
Roosevelt
Bryan

Second Choice

Roosevelt 24 6

La Follette 24 6

Wilson 2 2

Clark 2 2

Folk 1 1

Taft 1 1

Bryan I 1

About a dozen boys took a four mile
walk a few Sundays ago and it was so
well enjoyed that they decided to make
it a weekly occurrence. Others were
invited to join the company and Coach
Walrath has consented to act as guide.
This will serve as preliminary training
for the base-ball and track teams.

MISSIONARY CONFERENCE

The Central State Y. M. and Y. W.
C. A. missons conference was held at
Monmouth Sa'urday and Sunday, Feb.
3 and 4. The sessions were held in
the Assembly Hall of Monmouth Col-
lege which was very suitable for such a
conference. About eightytwo dele-
gates were in attendance from the var-
ious colleges throughout this section
of the state. Our own delegates were
the Misses Ruth Cochran, Hildreth
McFeeters, Florence Logan and
Frances Reeder from the Y. W. C. A.
and Mr. Theron Chaney from the Y.
M. C. A. All agreed that the sessions
v/ere very helpful and instructive.

On the program were missionaries
from South America, India, and China
whose addresses were very interesing
and helpful.

The hospitality of the students and
citizens could not easily be excelled.
A tour of inspection v/as taken through
the various buildings Saturday after-
noon and later a delightful program
was given by the musical talent of the
College.

RED RIDING HOOD

Five members of the German Club
under the direction of Miss Olson gave
the play "Rotkappchen" in German at
the Chapel period Monday. The child-
ren from the grades occuppied the front
seats and it was mostly on their ac-
count that the play was given.

The same people gave this play at
the German Club meeting just before
Christmas and it so pleased the audi-
ence that there was a demand for its
re-acting.

Miss Grace Cordell took the part of
"Die Mutter" and Miss Sarah Stock-
ing the part of "Rotkappchen." Miss
Susie Mitchell acted "Die alte Grosz-
mutter" to whom little "Rotkappchen"
brought the wine and cake. Alfred
Sorensen, dressed in a fur coat over-
topped with a grey wolf hide, and on
all fours, made a realistic wolf.
George Mapes in a Hunter's costume,
armed with knife and shotgun took the
part of "Der Jager".

The small children were very much
amused by the clever performance

and judging from the applause, the
older students also enjoyed it.

DEFEATED? YES. DISCOUR-
AGED? NO.

(Continued from page 97)
The Normal girls basket ball team
met their first defeat last Thursday
night in a lively and exciting game
with the girls from Hedding College.
The two preceding victories, one over
Hedding and the other over Carthage
made this defeat seem bitter.

The contest was spirited from the
very first and the home team received
the first basket, but at the close of the
first quarter, Hedding had 15 points
to its credit while Normal had only 7.
The second quarter closed with the
score in favor of the home team 10
to 16. The third period was hotly
played but the visitors speeded up and
closed with the score standing 17 to
17. In the last quarter the scorestood
19 to 19 untill near the close. One
Hedding forward threw a field basket
and won the game.

Excellent playing was common with
both teams and no one person could be
called a star because all played with
zeal and skill. The lineup follows,

Hedding
Forwards, Garett, Weber.
Centers, Leigh, Henry.
Guards, McClure, Hedstrom.

Normal
Forwards, Darke, Cordell, Terrill,

Walters.
Centers, Brinton, Robertson.
Guards, Welborn, Stinson.Cordell.
Score: Hedding 21, Normal 19.

The girls of the basket ball team
entertained the visiting team from
Hedding College after the game.
Eight young ladies from the college,
the chaperone and the ladies of
the Normal team with Miss Lamkin
sat at a very delightful little feast in
the Domestic Science room. The
following menu was served; Scalloped
oysters, pickles, graham sandwiches,
fruit salad, wafers and cake.

Home-Coming next Friday a week.

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SUPERINTENDENTS CONFER
ENCE HERE

The County Superintendents of
Schools in the surrounding territory
will meet in a conference here February
15 and 16. The following are superin-
tendents and the counties from which
they come : John H. Steiner, Adams;
Fanny R.Harker, Alexander; C.W. Sel-
lars, Brown; S.J.bibley, Calhoun: Hen-
ry Jacobs, Cass; M.M.CooK, Fulton;
S.D.Faris, Hancock; Mrs Delia
Yeomans, Henderson; A.L.Odenweller,
Henry; J.W. Roberts, Jersey; W. F.
Boyes, Knox;B.E. Decker, McDonough;
C.L.Gregory, Mercer; S.J.Ferguson,
Rock Island; G.R.Hermetet, Schuy-
ler; J. D.Regan, Warren.

The following letter will explain the
Conference more in detail.

We shall hold a conference of coun-
ty superintendents at Macomb, begin-
uing Thursday afternoon, February
15th, and continuing until Friday
noon, February 16th. The program
is as follows:

Thursday afternoon, 1 :30 oclock.

Round Table Conference: Sub-
jects discussed: (l) Superior school
diploma, (2) Improvement in village
schools, (3) Direction of teachers' and
pupils' reading by the county superinten-
dent, (4) Co-operating with and direc-
ting the school directors.

Thursday evening, 8:00 o'clock.

Program in charge of the Principal
of the School. General Topic— Prep-
aration of the teacher. Other talks
by members of the faculty and county
superintendents.
Friday morning, 9:00 to 12:00 o'clock.

Observation and discussion of illus-
trated lessons in reading taught by
critic teachers in the training Depart-
ment.

We shall send out invitations invit-
ing the county superintendents to the
meeting. You may do whatever you
wish to along the line of additional in-
vitations.

Yours Sincerely,
F. G. Blair

Superintendent.

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Miss Davis entertained the people
who present "As You Like It" in the
Domestic Science dining room last
Tuesday evening a week ago. After the
dining was completed a full rehearsal
was given. The menu was: biscuits,
baked potatoes, veal loaf, oyster dress-
ing, peaches, cake and coffee.

A Brass Quartet composed of Will
Jeffries, George Jeffries, Harlow
Wyne and Lloyd Smith, promises to
be quite a musical combination.

The basket ball team plays
Carthage College to-mcrrow night.

The Contestants in the Final De-
clamatory Contest received a handsome
gold pin from the Oratorical Associa-
tion in recognition of their work.

Several fine articles have been made
on the turning lathes this last week.
Ralph Stickle, Roscoe Rost and Rus-
sell Browning have been getting good
results from the use of walnut wood.

Mr. Hursh spoke at the Y. M. C. A.
meeting last week on the "Building of
Character". Music was given by
the male quartet and by Mr. Leach.

Our Y. M. C. A. Gospel Team will
conduct the services at the first Meth-
odist church next Sunday evening.

Would the readers of this paper be
interested in a special Agriculture
Number sometime before June?

Plans are silently taking form for
the out-door theater. Probably it will
be well under way by the beginning of
Summer School. It may be ready for
the special celebration of Independence
Day.

Mr. Bassett has been experiment-
ing with a Faucalts Pendulum for
for some time. He suspended the
twelve-pound shot by a forty or fifty-
foot wire in the fire escape, but ow-
ing to the disturbance by curious
people, the results have not been
satisfactory. This work is being
done for the benefit of his physics
classes and the classes in advance
physiography.

'1 h< : 11 tith gra 'fers are rt
of their basketball team. 'J
won every game so far and
fident of winning tbe
tests. Last Friday night tin
team was defeated by them
store of 12 to 10. Although Lha
Normal boys were much older, thei
have had little experience thi.-; aea-
sun. The nines are a jirom.'sin^
£ioup and will make a strong la^ej
for the championship.

The (ighth grade completed the
study of Julius Caesar last week, and
held a debate on the question: Re-'
solved, That Brutus was justified in
killing Caesar. Some good argu-
ments were given by both negative
and affirmative, but the judges gave
their decision in favor of the nega-
tive.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB. ILL., FEB. 15, 1912.

NUMBER XXVI

CONTRIBUTION TO OUR
KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY

Oliver Morton Dickerson, Ph. D.
Is the Author of a New Col-
lege Reference Book

The Arthur H. Clark Company,
publishers, of Cleveland, Ohio is adver-
tising a book on history fresh from the
press. The title is "American Colonial
Government" from 1696- 1765. It is
a study of the British Board of Trade
in its relation to the American Colo-
nies, Political, Industrial, and Admin-
istrative, and the author is Oliver Mor-
ton Dickerson, Ph. D.

The volume is bound in rich brown
cloth, is printed on Alexandra hand
made paper in large clear type. It
contains about four hundred pages,
with a complete analytical index and
facimiles of manuscripts This edition
is limited and sells at $4.00 net.

Mr. Dickerson has been engaged in
gathering material and writing for sev-
eral years. He made an exhaustive
study of all sources this side of the
Atlantic while attending the university
and in 1908 he went to England where
he delved into the records con-
nected with the early colonial gov-
ernment. The fact that his material is
drawn from original sources makes
this book of great value to students in
the more advanced courses.

The volume will be used as a college
reference and it is "the first adequate
attempt to lay bare the workings of
the British Colonial office (the Board
of Trade) during the most important
period of our colonial life," say the
publishers. In explaining the work
further the company quotes, "There
are few studies more fascinating than
the account of this gradual subversion
of the colonial constitution and tie
substitution in its place of a govern-
ment that could be controlled inds-
pendent of the mother country. On
account of the steady evolution which
was taking place, no period affords a

'DOBBY" ALMOST

SPOILS THE PLAY

This Is Just a Dream and Miss

Davis Dreamed It. - "Dobby"

the Leading Dream Man.

The play has stirred up so much
interest that people are dreaming about
it. Miss Davis says she always dreams
about the annual play but the dream
of "As You Like It" was the most ex-
aspera'ing she ever did dream. This
is what the God of dreams told her.
A full house was waiting for the
opening scene but no actors appeared.
After they did appear, however, she
found her make up box to contain noth-
ing but one piece of white grease paint
so she "made up" the whole cast in
white, eyes and all. The curtain rose
and things progressed beautifully until
the time arrived for Duke Frederick
(Dobson) to make his grand entry.
Dobson was nowhere near the stage.
Finally a faint whistle was heard down
the east corridor. A search was be-
gun and the wayward "Dobby" was
found strolling at ease with his hands
in his pockets whistling like a real live
French Duke. Miss Davis doesn't know
how the play ended for at this point she
was awakened by the crowing of her
pet chicken.

At the last meeting of the State
Teachers Association Ralph Eyman
was appointed a member of the Exec-
utive Committee of the Country
Teachers Section of the Illinois State
Teacher's Association.

better opportunity than this to study
British colonial administration in
action, nor is the study of any other
period likely to throw more light upon
the development of political institutions
which are peculiarly American."

The book is a contribution to our
knowledge of a comparatively unknown
period in our national development.
The school is glad that it can claim
the contributor.

'AS

YOU LIKE IT"

TO BE GIVEN AGAIN

Extraordinary Demand for Seats
Makes It Necessary to Re-
peat the Play.

Owing to the extraordinary demand
for seats for the play, the management
decided to give the play again Saturday
evening. The seats for Friday even-
ing sold very readily and many people
of the city were unable to secure any.

Phis second preformance will afford
an opportunity for those living in the
surrounding country to see the play.

Quite a bulk of advertising matter
is being printed and an effort will be
made to sell every seat fcr the second
evening.

Dr. Davidson, Rector of the Episco-
pal Church in this city, spoke on the
"Responsibility for conduct and moral
education" at the regular Y. M. C. A.
meeting Tuesday evening. Those who
were present were much pleased by
his talk and also by his congenial per-
sonality.

The German club met in the Do-
mestic Science Room last Tuesday
evening. Altho but a small fraction of
the membership was present a good
and profitable evening was spent.
After the informal program light re-
freshments were served.

Maybe the Courier ought not to care,
but we do wonder whom the Board of
Trustees will the elect as principal.
Several well known educators are
among the applicants.

The twenty or twenty-five county
superintendents who will be present
tomorrow for the conference will be
given a banquet by the Normal
School faculty this evening, after
which the program of the evening will
te given. The faculty members are
anticipating a very interesting and
r .ofitabale evening with their visiters.

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EDITORIAL

About a century ago, two babes were
born that were to emancipate the op-
pressed. One was to be at the helm
of the greatest nation of the world,
one was to test man's last govern-
mental experiment.

Thru clamor and strife the great
mind of one maintained a godlike poise
and his heart a childlike tenderness.
The ether great emancipator wan-
dered along the streets and alleys of
London. His keen eye saw every con-
ceivable type of personality and his
magic pen transmitted it to the printed
page. On that side of the Atlantic the
whites were ground into the dust, on
this side the blacks felt the lash of ser-
vitude.. Now they both are free, as
the term goes; all in one century, and
two men deserve the praise.

Athletics are primarily to keep
students from dying of the dry
rot. Books were formerly such great
attractions that athletics were organ-

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ized to counteract the poison. The aim
was first to keep a man's pi
being in good order and yet allow him
time to develop mentally. Mow the
principal aim of athletics is to keep
the physique in first class order, allow-
ing a few minutes for books. In order
to get people to engage in athletics it
was necessary to invent some games
in which one side won and the other
side lost.

Nov/ it has come to the point where
winning is the sole end in view, and
with this end in view big men are en-
couraged to attend school so the school
may have a winning team. Once in
the school, the big man is fed and
groomed like a race horse. Doctors
examine hir heart, his muscles, and
his wind but over look his brains. He
resolves to quit cigarettes and booze
during the season and after about
twenty attempts sails thru the last
game covered with glory. The next
day he breaks training and lives happy
ever after. See him on the street
and you are puzzled to know whether
he is human or a cross between a
fighting cock and a bull dog.

A BANQUET

Thursday, February 8, at 6 p. m., a
banquet was given In honor of Miss
Nina Spicer who won first place in the
final class declamatory contest held
February 2nd. The Country School
Training Class took this means of
showing their appreciation of her work

Besides the guests of honor, Miss
Grote, Miss Davis and Mr. Bassett,
there were about fifty present.

Mr. Hillyer, the class president,
acted as toastmaster and quite a num-
ber were called on for short toasts;
among the number were Miss Grote,
Mr. Hamm, MissWitham, Miss Har-
mon, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Waymack and
Mr. Bassett. Miss Pearl Knox gave
a few musical selections and Miss
Spicer was called on and gave a
delightful reading.

After the sumptous dinner and the
entertaining program, the banqueters
withdrew to iheir studies each wishing
Miss Spicer the height of success.

SANE i OLR1I1

ma ie for the observance of the Na1

lay at the Normal School. The

that have been proj
r cal Pageant,
omethingvery .'

band, and a
T - idea is to take the Ie

ity toward improving the
m thod of Fourth of July celebrations
Th/2 committies appointed to conduct
th irk are: Pageant -Mr. Dickerson,
Miss Lamkin, MissBuckner, and Miss
C tin. Picnic - Miss Colby.
Grcie, and Mr. Ginnings. Fireworks!
Mr. Hursh, Mr. Johnson, and Miss
C Bard and Chorus - Miss

Shi nekand Mr. McGilvrey. Finance
Messrs. Keefer, Johnson, and Drake.

Our Y. M. C. A. Gospel Team which
he'd ouch profitable meetings at Table
Grove during the holidays gained furthur
fame last Sunday evening. They were
given full charge cf the services at the
M. E. Church down town. Quite a
large crowd heard the address given
by Ralph Bishop, captain of the team,!
and also enjoyed the music furnished
by the Y. M. C. A. quartet. The
members of the team are Sorensen,
Salisbury, Jeffries, Bishop, and Leach.

By request of State Superintendent
Blair, the regular critic teachers will
present a series of lessons in Reading
for the observation of the visiting County
Superintendents Friday forenoon. The
plan is to have these lessons discussed
by the County Superintendents and
critic teachers in the afternoon. Snch
discussion should prove both helpful
and interesting.

Last Thursday morning the time
was taken by a Russian musical
program. Mrs. Hursh and Mrs. Johnson
gave two piano numbers from Russian
composers. Two numbers were also
rendered by the Nevin quartet, and a
solo by Miss Shamel. All the music
was characteristic of Russian compos-
ers.

Monday the time was given to pa- ;
triotic music celebrating Lincoln's
birthday.

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BASKETBALL

TOURNAMENT

If >ou wish to toe any of th sc e -
r-i lass i h im] lonsbip bas-
: nt hi aa appe rani e
: the N< i 3 an on Tu --

ny. Wednesday or Friday al er-
gons at t'o' r o'clock, either t'-i-
eek or next. The tournament has
i, in - i-
p-s ot the first team have b< en w< n-
fering whether they who not miss-
.1 t fun by i laying on the
team and ; ;
rrred from the inter-class meets.
t is evident that the first squad has
altered from lack of practice due to
icse same interesting class
tat few seem to have regretted the
frasion of first team "rights," even
mr-ng that number who most as-
iime the responsibility for defe its
rid victories in contests with other
thools.

Features of the tournament most
itkeable to an "insider" are: (1)
he rate of improvement in that team
hi< h the country training class
■rned lcose among the contestants
or honors; (2) the growing senti-
lent of fair play among all, and the
nthusiasm of the class units in sup
ort of the respective teams; (3)
he spurt of the freshmen who have
o far lost 'nary a game," and (4)
he development of well-matched
earns which result in four of the
earns being rated close seconds in
be tournament up to date. Consid-
ring the slight opportunity for prac-
ice given each class, each "five" is
laying very good ball. In order to
ncourage visitors, the boys have
>een selling transferable tickets for
cents, good for admission to five
ames. As a result our gymnasium
allery is usually well occupied on
he tournament afternoons. We want
11 townspeople to see us at work
>ut here. There will be two games
m Tuesday, two on Wednesday, two
m Friday of this week. Come then!

The "As You Like It" seat sale
ipened down town about eight o'clock
Saturday. A line was formed soon
ind the beard was cleared rapidly.
W noon but 139 tickets remained.
M night there were only 50 and some
ime later practically all were gone.

Some people must be expecting.
ts up to the class to please the audi-
ence.

A GLIMPSE OF THE

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Wilbur O. Pendarvis Tells of His

Little Visit to 1 hid Land
of Beauty.

No land that the tourist visits
leaved a more favorable impression
upon him than the Hawaiian Islands,
end no day of my trip from .Ma-
te nib to Manila was more interesting
than the one spent in Honolulu.
Most ol us have paid but little at-
tention to this island group. We
perhaps have a faint recollection of
the r appearance on the map,
marktd as the SandwicJi or Hawaiian
Islands, we remember something of
the political agitation at the time oi
their annexation to the United Staes
in 189 8, and in a vague sort of way
we realize that they are now a part.
Oi our own country; but even at the
most, we consider them only a speck
in the Pacific, scarcely worthy of our
consideration.

This attitude is at least a complete
if not a serious mistake. From the
time of their discovery by Captain
Cook in 1798, they have gradually
increased in importance and at the
present time they are rapidly assum-
ing a place of no inconsiderable sig-
nificance in the affairs of the world.

The islands are the tops of a por-
tion of a vast submerged mountain
chain, projecting above the water.
The inhabited islands of the group
are eight in number with a combined
area of about six and one-half thou-
sand square miles. Their formation
is fundamentally volcanic and coral,
but ages of erosion and centuries of
tropical vegetative growth have
formed valleys and plains, and
clothed them with a soil of the
greatest fertility. The climate is
oceanic and semi-tropical, which is
as nearly ideal in all respects as it is
possible to find. During the entire
year the weather is about like Illi-
nois weather in May. Frost and
intense heat are alike unknown.
They lie in the belt of the northeast
trade winds, which constantly bring
a gentle and refreshing breeze across
the billows from the cooler altitude
of the snow-capped Rockies. Rain
falls chiefly in frequent showers, and
destructive storms are entirely un-
known. During nearly every fore-
noon in Honolulu you can look up
into the hills back of the city and
see brisk showers chasing one an-
other over the green slopes, while

scattering dropB come sparkling
through the dear sky down into
the city, giving rise to the local ex-
pression of "liquid sunshine."

The nati\e Hawailans, who com-
prise about three-fourth of the popu-
lation of the islands, are a race p -
culiar to themselves. Their origin
is unknown, but they ;n-e doubtless
of Malay extraction. Thej arc large
of stature, strong, robust, and mus-
cular: yet they arc peaceable and
kind, and "aliola," or welcome, is
their watchword. They are all great
lovers of music and many of them
are quite highly talented along this
line. They have a history quite as
interesting as any of the larger na-
tions. Their modern history begins
with the great struggle waged by
Kamehameha the Great, whereby he
brought the islands under a single
government, placed himself at their
head as king, and earned the oft
applied title of "The Napoleon of the
Pacific."

The dynasty thus established de-
scends in unbroken succession until
the recent revolution brought about
by the interests of the white man,
which wrested the throne from
Queen I.iliuokalani and led to
annexation to the United States.

The earliest known industry of
the islands was the collection and
exportation of sandalwood. This
was followed by whaling, but during
the days of the gold fever in Califor-
nia the natives developed a lucrative
trade by supplying the miners with
produce. From this small beginning
has followed the extensive spread of
agriculture which today forms the
one great occupation of the people.
Sugar producing here has reached a
scientific development that is unsur-
passed, large quantities of rice are
produced, and extensive plantations
of pineapples, bananas, oranges,
lemons, and other tropical fruits cov-
er the islands.

Honolulu is a hustling little city
of some fifty thousand inhabitants,
about one-third of whom are Amer-
icans. There are also many Chinese,
Japanese and Portuguese. Its busi-
ness streets are narrow and some-
what crooked, but its parks and
modern residence districts are un-
surpassed in beauty. There are sev-
eral places of special interest to the
traveler. Among these are the leg-
islative building, formerly the royal
palace, the statute of Kamehameha,
an aquarium containing a splendid
collection of tropical sea fishes, and
an endowed museum containing the
world's greatest ethnological collec-

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tion from the islands of the South
Pacific. Here may be teen every-
thing, from the wooden vats in
which the South Sea Islanders used
to boil unfortunate explorers bj
dropping hot stones into the watar
■ i.i them, to the bola, the constant
cor. pan:< i aaJ all :n a'i cf the mod-
em Filipino.

A short distance to the east of the
C'b is the famous Waui.iki Eeach,
noted for its surf riding, a sport that
I did not have time to try. A lit-
tle farther to the east is Diamond
Head, a high promontory jutting out
into the sea, behind which is located
the military post, Fort Shafter, and
the batteries that guard the city.

After visiting the main part of the
city a group of us took an automo-
bile tour out through the parks and
suburbs into the country and up into
the mountains. We passed the pa-
latial residences of many of Hono-
lulu's millionaire families, whose
people first came to the islands as
missionaries, but won wealth as well
as converts. We saw several of their
excellent secondary and technical
schools and the splendid Oahu Col-
lege, whose extensive campus, in its
gorgeous beauty, would make that of
the State Normal at Macomb seem
rather modest. Rice fields, banana
farms, orange orchards, and sugar
plantations were on either side. Na-
tive farmers were busy at work,
some toiling by hand, come working
caraboas, and some using more mod-
ern methods. We met many of the
native women by the wayside,
dressed in their characteristic hula-
ku, carrying bundles on their heads,
and peacefully smoking their cigar-
ettes, a habit that they proudly
claim to have learned from Mrs.
Alice Longworth, who spent her
honeymoon here. Cocoanut palms
with their tall slender trunks and
tufted tops, laden with growing
fruit, lifted their heads here and
there among the scenes of tropical
splendor; while royal palms and
beautiful blossoming trees crowded
the roadway. Bright-hued birds
sang in rich, warbling notes, and
the air, cool and refreshing, was
filled with the delicate perfume of
countless seen and unseen blossoms.
We ascended the mountains through
a forest of Eucalyptus and Austra-
lian Ironwood, and entered the
"Punch Bowl," an extinct volcanic
crater where we stood gazing down
upon the bustling city, the sparkling
sea and the ships riding In the har-
bor.

As I stood there I could fully real-

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lze and appreciate the feeling of
Mark Twain when he said of Ha-
waii: "No alien land in all the world
has any deep, strong (.harm for me
but that one; no other land could
so longingly and beseechingly haunt
me, sleeping and waking, thn
more than half a lifetime, as this
one has done. Other things leave
r> e, but it abides. Fur cie its balmy
airs are always b'ooming, it3 sum-
mer seas flashing in the sun; the
pulsing of its surf beat is in my ear;
I can see its garlanded crags, it3
leaping cascades, its plumy palms
drowsing by the shore; its remote
summits floating like islands above
the cloud -i(k; I can r etl the s; irit
of its woodland solitudes; I can hear
the plash of its brooks; in my nos-
trils still lives the breath of flowers
that perished twenty years ago."

Keep your eye on Hawaii. If you
are looking for the most ideal land
in all the world for a vacation trip or
a honeymoon, keep both eyes on her.
As I stood in their legislative hall
they were busy recording a motion
asking for statehood. The Hawaiian
Islands are the strategic point of
the Pacific. They are at the cross-
roads of all the grent steamship
routes. The opening of the Panama
Canal in the near future will add to
their importance. A few miles to
the west of Honolulu, gigantic steam
dredges are now busy clearing out
the channel into the Pearl locks, and
preparing them for the world's
greatest naval station. Here will be
held in reserve the power that will
sway the Pacific; from here the stars
and stripes will rule the waves that
wash the shores of thirty thousand
miles of coast line; here is being
laid the corner stone of a greater
power and influence than any that
America has yet known.

WILBUR PENDARVIS.

During the past week fireman Scott
took the place of engineer Smith who
was unable to be on duty. Mr. Scott
did the firing at night during the cold
spell a few weeks ago. So the fact
that the building was good and warm
when we got here in the morning was
due to his efforts.

Miss Shame! has selected a chorus
of fifty or more voices to assist in the
dedication of the new organ. She is
making arrangments for the dedication
to take place Easter Sunday if the
organ is installed by that time. A very

elaborate pi'.gram will be given.

Not as much interest is being taken
in the Contest fcr High Schcol :
a., was anticipated. "The Per
from Dallas City and "Trie Per,
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in the Weekly division. The Ha a
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Mcnthly division and "The Rapid
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publication entered in the semi-monthly
class. If no further entries are made
in the last two classes before next week
the contest will be dropped so far as
those classes are concerned.

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NUMBER XXVII

:OUNTY SUPERINTEND-
ENTS IN CONFERENCE

vVith Superintendent Blair Ob-
serve a Series of Model Les-
sons in the Training School.

Friday forenoon, Feb. 16. Supt. B!air
vith a number of County Superintend-
ents spent several hours in observing
:he work of the various grades in the
rrainingbchool.

According to his previous request,
a series of model lessons in reading
tiad been arranged, to show the pro-
gressive steps in teaching the subject,
and the growth in power from year to
year.

The first grade were taught a new
lesson to show how new words were
presented to them and to illustrate the
methods by which they were led to see
a sentence as a whole, and to become
able to hold a sentence in thought
vhi'e giving it expression. A word
drill followed in which games were
jsed to show how word forms are fixed
in memory and rendered automatic in
recognition. The class finally read a
iamiliar selection to show their pcwar
with the printed page.

The second grade gave a rapid
phonic drill by means of cards and
blackboard in which various initia 4
letters were associated with given
phonograms. It was shown to be a
method of helping children to master
words.

The third grade read a prepared
lesson and prepared a new one in order
to show power in reading and methods
of study.

The fourth grade gave pure
sight reading as an illustration of what
can be dene in that grade in reading
independently.

The fifth grade gave the same kind
of work as the third, choosing heavy
material for the work as an illustration
of what children can do when pushed
by strong interest in the subject matter.
(Continued on page 106)

NOTED HISTORIAN

LECTURES HERE

EVERY THING MUST GIVE WAY
TO THE ORCHESTRA."

'AS YOU LIKE IT"

A BIG SUCCESS

Miss Davis and the Cast Deserve

Great Credit for the Excellent

Presentation of the Play.

A greater contrast can hardly be
found than between the two plays
of "As You Like It" and "Hamlet,"
and each must be estimated from an
entirely different point of view.
"Hamlet," with its searching char-
acter study, complicated plot, and
dramatic climaxes, is a play which
reveals all the power of Shakespeare's
genius and portrays in noble lan-
guage the tragedy of a human soul.
"As You Like It," on the contrary,
takes us away from the problems of
life to a land of pastoral beauty, re-
mance, and gay humor. To be sure,
all is not happiness in the forest of
Arden, for the banished Duke and
the exiled Orlando have each his
share of misfortune, but the keynote
of the play is a cheerful courage,
which makes light of difficulties
and turns hardship into p'leasure.
Duke Senior, instead of regretting
his life at court, finds

"Books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in
everthing."

Rosalind spends little time in la-

Albert Bushnell Hart Speaks on
"Washington as a Lit-
erary Man".

The students, faculty, and friends
of the school were afforded the oppor-
tunity, Monday evening, to hear the
greatest student of American History
now living. Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart,
of Harvard University. The Doctor
is lecturing at Knox College at present,
having been engaged for quite a period
of time by several of the small colleges
of this region, and it was thru the ac-
quaintance between Mr. Dickerson and
Dr. Hart that he was engaged to lec-
ture here.

His subject was "Washington As a
Literary Man." Very few of the peo-
ple in the audience had ever had oc-
casion to become acquainted with
Washington in that phase of his life.
All know of the mythological Wash-
ington and his cherry tree, and many
know of his successes as a soldier and
a statesman. Dr. Hart has, by un-
earthing much of the personal corres-
pondence of the first president, pre-
pared a lecture that is interesting,
amusing, and instructive as well.

It would be quite impossible to give
any analysis of the talk in these col-
umns-suffice it to say that the large
audience appreciated not only the lec-
ture but the honor of hearing a man of
Mr. Hart's ability.

At the close of the lecture the
members of the faculty and a few
friends adjourned to the Domestic
Science Room to entertain their guest.

mentations; Orlando makes the best
of a bad matter and refu s to grat-
ify Jaques by railing "against our
mistress the world," and even old
Adam bears his exile from the home
where he has faithfully served for
three score years, with a cheerful
fortitude. When added ;o this brave
spirit are the sparkling fun of Rosa-
(Continued on pagt 106)

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EDITORIAL

Humor is anything that will make a
human being exercise his only truly
human talent. Humor varies widely
in species. Things that make some
people laugh make others cry. A
man's sense of humor is an index to
his state of civilization. Monkeys do
many humorous things but they learn-
ed them for the most part by imitating
their better educated brethern — hu-
mankind.

The things humans laugh at vary
widely. At present the vaudeville is
the most tickling sensation. Some
folks read "Peck's Bad Boy" and laugh
"sans intermission," but find no excuse
to even smile while reading "Comedy
of Errors."

Savages laugh at cooked mission-
aries. Uncultured people laugh at
crude incongruities. Educated people
laugh at the cute things children do.
Students laugh at a fellow whose hair
they have clipped, thus showing how
low they are in the scale of civilization.

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Professors and school teachers do not
laugh at all.

The Courier has been criticised for
its dearth of humor. But how can the
Courier be humorour? Educated peo-
ple read it but it has no acquaintance
with children. Students read it, but it
has no hair to spare. Professors and
school teachers read it, but they
wouldn't laugh if it were all a joke.
Suggestions please.

In the publication contest, the judg-
es, Miss Mabel L. Corbin, Miss
Martha J. Hanna, and Mr. A. L.
Walrath, have given the Canton Pen-
nant first place and the Dallas City
Perhaps second place. The same
marking has been given for the first
three weeks of the contest. The re-
maining two numbers have not been
judged as yet.

All out for the Carthage - Normal
basketball game to-morrow at 4
o'clock. The boys are standing up
bravely in the face of so many defeats.
Show them you appreciate their grit by
being present at the game.

The Play Music under the direction
of Miss Shamel was especially pleas-
ing. The orchestra was re-enforced by
four musicans from the city. Miss
Dunsworth, Miss Brooking, Mrs. Hursh
and Mrs. Johnson served at the pianos.
Mr. Leroy Stocker played first violin,
Mr. Jay Cook the flute, Mr. Homer
Hoffman, the clarinet, and Mr. Keith
Dawson, the drums. The vocal num-
bers were given by a chorus of the
boys in the cast and Mr. Paul Leach
who sang the song written especially
or "As Ycu Like It," "Blow, Blow,
thou Wintry Wind."

One hundred dollars plus a few dol-
lars from other sources ought to get the
outdoor amphitheater s*arted.

Many who saw the play are remark-
ing about the beauty of the stage and
its neat arrangement.

The new organ is the talk of the
town.

SUPERINTENDENTS IN CON-
FERENCE HERE

jied from p:.; ■

The eighth grade read " D:
Green" ss an i!iu A -

to rea'i so as to i

"station of the thought of ±t
poet. 0^;ng to lack of time the
of the sixth and se
omitted.

At twelve o' ;io k the trs : ing
teachers met the visitors ; t un h in
the dming room where a (
the mornings w

It seemed a consensus of opinion
tha* the games for wor.l drill and the
phonic work in the lower grades was
the most valuable.

Tne fact that the third grade did
not wish to read a sentence until they
understood it, and that they frar.k'y
asked for help in such circumstances
instead of simply calling words, was
favorably commented on.

Sight reading was approved as a
part of class work but easy reading
was recommended as an aid to confi-
dence.

The selection from Heidi read by
the fifth grade was questioned as to
its difficulty and the advisability ot let-
ting children of that age struggle so hard
with subject matter as to lose all ease
in expression.

The question as to technical terms
of the laws of expression in reading
should be taught the eighth grade closed
the discussion. Supt. Blair decidedly
objected to the introduction of technic-
al terms.

"AS YOU LIKE IT" A BIG
SUCCESS

(Continued from page 105)
lind, and the quaint wit of Touch-
stone, we have a combination which
should put the audience into "a
holiday humor."

Such seemed to be the atmosphere
which the "As You Like It" company
created in their delightful presenta-
tion of the play last Friday night, a |
presentation which fully maintained
the high standard of the former
plays. For an amateur company the (
acting had a finish and artistic ef- 1
feet which showed faithful work on
the part of the actors and skilful

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107

training bj the director, Miss Dm s.
A particularly good feature was the
nearness with which the lines were
Spoken and which made it possible
fur those near the back of the room
to hen- distinctly, it la impossible
in a brief space to speak of the work
of all the characters. The minor
on the whole very satis-
factorily played and the evident en-
;.! aud interest which each
u showed in his part did much
|oward making the play an artistic
vvhcle.

Mr. Mapes as Orlando, pleased his
ce from the iir»c, where, in the
altercation with Oliver, lie interpre-
ted the part with great vigor and
The excellent quality of his
\oice and the clear rendering of his
Hues were especially commendable
throughout the play. The scene in
which he accepts old Adam's offer
of assistance was strongly given,
while the disconsolate lover, half con-
soled by the pretty Ganymede, was
>ery artistically done. Mr. Mapes'
previous experience helped to give his
acting an ease and freedom from self-
consciousness not always to be found
in an amateur.

Miss Wyne made a most charming
Rosalind and interpreted the role
with a finish and sureness of touch
that won her much favor from the
audience. While not as animated as
Rosalind is sometimes conceived to
be, Miss Wyne had a simple direct-
ness and naturalness in her acting
which rcade her a very delightful
Ganymede. The forest scenes were
particularly well done. As was true
with all the cast, her work gained in
finish and animation the second
night.

A very sparkling and loyal Celia
was Miss Finlay, who gave her lines
with a sincerity and animation which
made her a most adequate support
lor Rosalind. The spontaneity of Miss
Finlay's acting was particularly good
as well as the manner in which she
identified herself with the part, even
when she was not speaking.

It would be hard to find a better
amateur Touchstone than Mr. Hoyt.
His heels were as nimble as his wit,
and yet he interpreted this difficult
role with a balance and restraint that
showed the benefit of former training
and experience in the jester's part.
Touchstone's by-play was particularly
good; the scenes with Audrey de-
lighted the audience, and we are in-
clined to agree with Jaques that this
is "a wonderful fool he has met in
the forest.'' Miss Darl e was excel-

lent in the part of Audrey and her
"stage business" furnished some of
the most amusing scenes of the eve-
ning.

The part of the melancholy Jaques
Is highly thought of by actors and it
afforded Mr. Salisbury an opportunity
of giving some of ,the finest passages
i.. ihe [Hay. Though not as deeply
buried in melancholy as Jaques is
cometia.es seen, Mr. Salisbury por-
trayed In a convincing manner the
affected dignity and philosophic hu-
ii.or of the part. ; Mr. West's inter-
pretation of the part of Duke Senior
was a very effective piece of acting;
the beautiful lines describing the
pleasures of the forest were especial-
ly well ghen. Mb, Dobson, as Duke
Frederick, and Mr. Norton, as the
faithful old Adam, both gave their
roles in a very satisfactory manner.
Mr. Thompson's portrayal of the
love-lorn shepherd persecuted by the
heartless Phoebe was a good bit of
acting, while" Miss Kennedy's part as
Phoebe was well taken.

Everyone enjoyed, the wrestling
match, in which Mr. Sorensen as
Charles, made the audience tremble
at times for fear the gallant young
Orlando might not be able to throw
his athletic opponent.

The accessories of the play — set-
ting, costumes, and music, were un-
usually artistic and beautiful; a new
palace drop had been added to the
scenery, and the forest scenes, with
the artistic lighting, were very pict-
uresque. A particularly effective
scene was at the opening of the sec-
ond act, where the rising of the cur-
tan revealed the Duke, seated in
the forest, surrounded by his follow-
ers in their suits of Lincoln green.

The music, under Miss Shamel's
direction, was a particularly pleas-
ing feature of the evening. The or-
chestra was at its best, and gave the
Overture to the Merry Wives of
Windsor with a spirit and expres-
sion that made it a beautiful and fit-
ting introduction to the play. The
foresters were as good in song as
they were picturesque in costume.
"Under the Greenwood Tree" and
tae quaint melody of "Summer is a
Comin In," were especially enjoy-
able. Mr. Leach's solo, "Blow, Blow,
Thou Wintry Wind," was given in a
very effective manner.

"As You Like It" has certainly ful-
filled our exvectations, and we are
all indebted to Miss Davis and the
members of the cast for giving us
such a delightful evening's enter-
tainment. Not only Is the play a

credit to the class and the depart-
ment of oratory, but an Inspiration
to the whole school. It cannot fail
t awaken a renewed interest in the
art of the great dramatist and to
make us more eager to know at Mist
hand the myriad minded Shake-
speare."

M. L. C.

It is very interesting to not? the per-
sonal judgments of different people on
a certain event cr circumstance. The
writer was somewhat puzzled to find
the wide range in difference of opinion
among students and faculty in regard
to the work of certain individual mem-
bers of the play ca.it. Incidents that
were important and convincing to one
mind were not noticed by another.
Certain people spoke highly of the act-
ing of certain important members while
others considered the same persons as
only mediocre.

If a person should listen to all, he
would never reach a conclusion. The
essential thing to consider, however,
is the joy given by the production to
the audience in general. Those who
enjoyed the work of some special act-
or should not be discounted in his
judgment by anyone. If the thousand
or more persons wh; saw "As You
Like It" enjoyed it as a literary unit,
the cast feels satisfied and the direct-
or feels repaid for her work.

Mr. Frank McCall, a graduate of
this school, has accepted a position as
principal of a grammar school in Rock
Island. This position was offered him
by the authorities at Rock Island upon
the advice of Mr. McGilvrey. Mr.
McCall left the University to take this
position but he feels it will eventually
benefit as much as his course there
would. -

The entire Janitor force the engi-
neer and firemen deserve the hearty
thanks of the cast and the manage-
ment for the interest taken in arrang-
ing for the production and for carrying
out the arrangments asked for by the
management.

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FINANCIA STATEMEMENT.

OF THE PLAY

Total receipts

$502. OD

Total expenditures

1S0.22

Balance, two nights

321.78

502.00

First Night

Receipts

$417.50

Expenditures

Courier

13-25

Bystander

1. 00

Journal

3.80

Costumes

60.60

Music

12.25

Books

2.60

Cab

.50

Shamel

1. 00

llanan

1.26

J. C. Smith

15.00

Janitors

2.00

Incidentals

13.00

Sorensen

2.00

Dry Goods

3.00

Total

131.26

Balance

286.24

£4i7-S

econd Nigh

Receipts

£84.50

Expenditures

Courier, Programs

2.50

Dodgers

1.50

Postals

•75

loumal

1.60

Journal

2.50

Bystander

.80

Costumes

27,00

Music

12.25

Total

48.90

Balance

35.60

#84.50

Balance both nights

$321.84

Sequel

221.84

Out-of-door theater

100.00

#321.84

Mr. Hursh spoke a few words of ap-
preciation of the play in Chapel Tues-
day morning. The apparent desire
of many people to compare "Hamlet"
with "As You Like It" caused him
to explain the essential differences
between comedy and tragedy.

The best compliment pa'd the cast
and Miss Davis is found in this re-
mark, "After the play had progressed
a few minuies I felt that it was sure
to go without a slip." With amateur
preformances there is nearly always the
fear that some one will become "stage
struck." The fact that this fear was
apparently not experienced by the aud-

ience cpeaks well for the production.

The Courier saw many familiar
faces about the building the last of last
week. It does not remember them all
by name, so the list below is not -
plete. Roy Sallee, Clarence Clute,
Gertrude Meyer, Charles Burgoyne,
Edyth Motter, Fan Stevens, Blanche
Chandler, Vera Flack, Pearl Davis,
Lauretta Finlay, Louise S vitzer. Mar-
garet Finlay, Anna Culver, Hayes Fuhr
Feme Routh, Guy Pickenpaugh, Ben
Runkle, Louise Randolph, Harold Rob-
erts, Louise Roberts, Hazel Humberd,
Walter Ruebuah, Ross Noper, and
"Curly" Wilson.

Mr. Roy Sailee reports progress with
his school work at Reynolds.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., FLB. 29, 1912.

NUMBER XXV III

IN THE INTEREST OF

COUNTRY SCHOOLS

A Meeting in the Interest of Coun-
try School Improvement Is To
Be Held during the Summer.

A folder has been printed and wi !
soon be distributed to the one room
schools of the Military Tract.

The opening paragraph will explain
the circular. "Some time during the
1912 summer term of the Western
Illinois State Normal School a meeting
will be held in the interest of country
school improvement, and all persons,
whether school officers, teachers, pa-
trons, or others interested in the study
and improvement of schools and social
conditions in the country, are cordially
invited to be present. It is expected
that the Open Country Clubs of the
Military Tract will take an active part.
The exact time of this meeting will be
announced later."

Prizes will be awarded to schools
winning the highest honors in any one
of the three classes mentioned below.
Class 1: Improvements in the Physi-
cal Enviroment, which has to do with
the exterior and interior improve-
ments of the building and grounds.
Class 2: Improvements in the Physical
Environment which deals with the so-
cial development of the community.
Class 3 is educational. Prizes here
are given for the best work done by
individuals. This ought to be a great
opportunity for country school teachers
to improve their surroundings and in-
terest their pupils in school improve-
ment.

Preliminary baseball practice is
now in order. The prospects for a strong
team are promising. Several strong
players among the younger students are
developing. After the crushing defeats
in basket ball, the students who take
part in athletics feel confident of better
sucess in the Great American Sport.

SIGNS OF SPRING.

'SWAT THE FLY'

Woman's Civic League Begins
Early To Renew Its Cam-
paign Against Flies.

The Wcmau's Civic League of Ma-
coinb will continue the campaign
against flies, begun two years ago.
They want fifty or more good car-
toon-posters to display in windows,
and other prominent places up town
and prefer they be as different as
possible in subject and style. They
ask the co-operation of teachers and
pupils in this work.

The Woman's Civic League offers
the following prizes for "cartoon-
posters" setting forth the danger of
the common house fly, or typhoid fly:

1. For the best poster submitted
by any pupil of grades 9, 10, 11, and
12, $1.50; for the second best, $1.00.

2. For the best poster submitted
by any pupil of grades 7 and 8,
$1.25; for the second best, 75 cents.

3. For the best poster submitted
by any pupil of grades 5 and 6,
$1.00; for the second best, 50 cents.

Rules.

1. All drawings must be submit-
ted by April 1, and will become the
property of the Civic League.

2. The board must be stiff
enough to stand alone (one or more
hfavy strips may be glued to back),

THE NINTH GRADE

WINS A DEBATE

Myrrhene Newsome and Harry

Heffner Win a Victory from

the Tenth Grade.

Monday afternoon in the ninth grade
study hall a very interesting debate
was held. The question, "Resolved,
That in the interest of universal peace
the United States should disarm" was
supported by Wade Watson and
Kathryn Callihan on the affirmative,
and Harry Heffner and Myrrhene
Newsome on the negative. Very
good points were given and each side
took much interest in trying to con-
vince their audienc that they were in
the right. Miss Smick, Mr. Stevens
and Mr. Salisbury acted as judges and
gave their decision in favor of the ne-
gative. This makes another victory for
the ninth grade.

and 14 inches by 22 inches in si/.e.

3. Each cartoon-poster must —

(a) Set forth one or more of the
dangers of the fly;

( b ) Must ask everybody to join in
the clean-up work the last week in
April, or have the town clean by
May 1;

4. The grade of the pupil must
be placed on the drawing, H. S. and
Academy being designated at 9, 10,
11, and 12.

5. Names of pupils will not be
placed on drawings until after prizes
have been awarded.

Suggestions.

1. Drawings may be in black and
white or colors.

2. Drawings should be very bold
and distinct, as they are to be dis-
played in windows, and preference
will be given to those that show up
best at that range.

3. Special ability in drawing is
not necessary. Effective, "catchy"
drawings are wanted — those that set
forth most forcibly the great danger
of the fly.

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Twelfth Grade Lester A'.leiy

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Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training ^iliool . . . . Elsie Robertson

Platouian Hen West

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EDITORIAL

From the standpoint of winning
games, this basket-ball season has
not been very successful. But look-
ing at it in another light, it has prob-
ably been the most successful sea-
son in the school's history. A great-
er number of students have derived
benefit from the game this year than
ever before owing to the basket-ball
tournament.

It has not only given those who
rnrticipated, benefit in the physical
sense, but also in many other ways.
For instance, a game gives a player
much training in the art of self-con-
trol, or in other words, keeping one's
temper. Then, great accuracy is
developed which is always essential
In all forms of work, whether men-
tal or physical.

Unity and teamwork are also de-
veloped which are of great value to
any company of individuals who are
working for a common end. Lastly,
it promotes class spirit which seems
to be very evident among the vari-
ous classes in school since the tour-
nament, and which undoubtedly has

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added much \'> '..he life of the scho'.
in general.

Neckties are an abomination unto
the Lord and much trouble ur.to man-
kind. They are used to edify the
throat on the outside and to hide dir'y
shirt bosoms.

Neckties vary much in size and
structure. Some resemble colored
shoe strings, others are large enough
for fair sized footmats. The most
popular brand of tie is the four-in-hand,
so named because it requires four
hands to tie it. Another coming
brand is the bow tie. This variety is
the most abominable, for nobody but a
sleight-of-hand performer can tie one
decently.

However, the color of a necktie is
the most distinguishing feature.
White ones are not desirable because
they soil so easily. Black ones are
too somber for the young fellows.
Red, white, green, purple, gold,
cream, buff, blended on one piece of
cloth make admirable ties. These
are vocal beyond the utmost endeavors
of a fog horn. They save auto horns,
locomotive whistles and church bells.

Many men are known by the ties
they wear. A boy of twelve wears
none, a youth of sixteen wears two a
day. A young man shifts into the
flaming four-in-hand and bow, but the
last scene of all- the married man- is
sans neckties, sans collar buttons,
sans oxfords, sans pompadour, sans
everything.

Ross Stephens is working hard on
his oration for the Inter-Normal Con-
test. No communication has been
received from the Normal School at
Normal but it is supposed that their
orator is preparing no less faithfully
than Mr. Stephens is. The contest
occurs March 29, at Macomb.

Several of the men of the school
exercised their civic right Tuesday by
voting at the City Primary election.
Good work. Why not the ladies?

Jokes! Jokes! Give us some
jokes; we're just dying of melancholy.

SPECIAL HISTORY V. '

Desiring information on the attitude
of city superintendents towards : :
supervision cf history ccurce:. in the
lov/er grades, Mr.Dickerscn hao mailed
about fifty circular letters to the
superintendents of city systems asking
the following duestions:

"Could you use a good supervisor
of history in the grades; one who can
teach all the new material which the
new courses call for, and can direct
and assist regular grade teachers to
do the work? Or do you wish depart-
mental teachers of history who are
especially prepared to teach grade
history to grade pupils?"

The statement following also ap
pears in the letter. "The Western Ill-
inois State Normal School is one of
the few normal schools in which spe-
cific training in lower grade history
has been offered for some time."

The answers received are very in-
teresting. Often, the superintendent
feels the need of a history supervisor
but is hampered by the lack of funds.
Those who have no special need for
teachers answer in a way that would
indicate a growing demand for special
work.

Mr. Johnson and Mr. Bassett at-
tended a meeting of The Illinois
Academy of Science at Blooming-
ton, Friday and Saturday last, Feb.
23-24. Among the numbers on the
program was a paper read by Mr.
Johnson entitled, "The Relation of
Pure and Applied Sciences in the
Authorized Agricultural High

Schools."

Mr. Bishop is in receipt of several
pictures from Pendarvis. One vas a

photograph of himself, displaying a
beautiful pompadour. Another was a
view of his two living rooms. On the
outside of the package were these
words"Zoological Photographs."

Classes in Mechanical Drawing and
Wood Turning will be given next quar-
ter. Those who are interested arrange
matters with Mr. White soon.

Mr. McGilvrey attended a meeting
of the Superintendents Section of the
N. E. A. at St. Louis the first part
the week.

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CARTHAGE WINS AGAIN

The dose has been repeated, or in
ether words we have received a
double dose, or to come to the
Straightforward truth of the matter,
we were defeated. The cause of con-
tention was the leather covered
sphere known as a basket-ball, and
the people so successful in flingiag
it were the boys of the fast college
team from Carthage. Nevertheless
the game' was interesting to watch as
it was not so slow as the score
would indicate. Eoth teams played
Tost and hard, and at times were
lather rough for high school rules.
Our boys played their usual
bteady game, but could not,
for some reason, stop the on-
slaught of the Carthage boys.
Both teams had exceptionally good
team work which was backed by the
ability to throw baskets from all an-
gles, especially on the part of Car-
thage.

We hesitate to print the score, and
to those who are good in algebraical
examples, we will say that the dif-
ference of the scores was 47, and
the sum, 95. Find the score. Of
course it is understood that the lar-
ger end of the answer indicates Car-
thage.

The line-up follows:

Carthage. Normal.

Martin, capt. R. F. Bennett, Sor-
ensen
C. Carlin L. F. Rost, capt.

W. Carlin C. Russell

I.oomis R. G. Huey, Imes

Welge L. G. Sorensen, Ben-

nett
O'Haver Sub Salisbury

Field baskets, W. Carlin, 10; Mar-
tin, 3; C. Carlin, 11; Loomis, Welge,
9; Russell, 3; Rost, Bennett, 2;
Huey, 2; Sorensen.

Foul baskets, Sorenson, 6; Welge,
3.

Referee, Walrath.

Umpire, Baird.

Timekeepers, Bannan, Erwin.

Score-keeper, McCall.

Between halves of the big game, a
game was played between the 9-10
girls and the girls' first team. The
teams were not very evenly matched,
and the first team won by a comfort-
able margin.

Mr. Bassett goes to Basco, Han-
cock county, next Saturday to de-
liver a stereopticon lecture.

COMING EVENTS

March l{Fri.) - Final Class Contest.

March 7(Thur.) - Music Contest.

March 8-18 - Vacation.

March 1 l{Mon.)- Trustees' Meeting.

March 1 3 (Wed.) - Con/erernce of
Trustees of All Illinois State Normal
Schools at Springfield.

March 29(Fri.) - State Oratorical
Contest.

"SWAT THE FLY'*

(Continued from page 109)
4. A few of the gocd subjects

(a) The menace of garbage thrown
iii alleys and back yards.

(b) The danger of admitting flies
to the sick room, especially where
there is typhoid.

(d) Protection of babies and their
/bod from flies.

MISSIONARY SPEAKS
A joint meeting of the Y. M. and Y.
W. C. A.'s was held Tuesday evening
Feb. 27, in Society Hall. Quite a
large number enjoyed the address giv-
en by Miss Grace Hitchcock, a mis-
sionary from South Africa. She told
of the customs of that country, of her
work there, and of the splendid oppor-
tunities along missionary lines.

Music was furnished by a girls' dou-
ble trio composed of the Misses Mc
Feeters, Culp, Logan, Cordell, Brook-
ing, and Swisher.

The Platonian Literary Society gave
a patriotic program in Society Hall
last week. Speeches and essays of a
patriotic character were given and
patriotic scngs were sung. Officers
for the coming quarter were nominated.
The election will be held next Tuesday.

The booklets advertising the Annu-
al Neighborhood Track and Field
Meet are now at press. The event
will take place Saturday May, 1 1 ,
and if interest increases as it has in
the past, this will be the event of the
spring.

PREPARATIONS FOR TRACK
WORK BEGUN

Preoarations are under way for
systematizing the track work. A
meeting of the sub-captains was held
in Mr. Walrath' sroom last evening.
The plan is to put each series of
events under the direction of som«
specialist and make that person re-
sponsible for a winning group in
that section. The sub-captains have
been chosen as follows: Ralph Wilson
will have charge of the weight events
which will include the shotput and dis-
cus throw. Simon Simonson will be
responsible for coaching up a group of
long distant runners. Howard Thomp-
son will have charge of the hurdle
races and the pole vault. Alired Sor-
ensen will coach the sprint enthusiasts,
and George Salisbury will oversee the
jumps.

YOUTHFUL WRITERS

In the second and third grades an
effort is being made to connect all
language work with some phase of
work in which the child is interested
at that time.

During the past eight weeks the third
grade, through the history work, have
become much interested in the life of
the Eskimo. In the language period
they are writing letters to some Eskimo
children who live at Golivan, Alaska.
Our children hope to receive answers
to their letters some time during the
spring term.

In the literature period, the second
grade are studying Robinson Crusoe.
In this connection, they made butter
one day last week. Since then, in the
language period, they have written a
story telling how this was done.

They were given all the help they
needed in spelling the words. The
thought and composition is their own.
The following paper was written by
Lawrence Wisecup. Age 7 years.

"We played we were Robinson
Crusoe. We put the sour cream in a
jar. We played the jar was a goat
skin bag. We each shook the jar
many times. Then we looked into it.
We saw yellow butter. We took the
butter out. We washed the butter.

WES i 1 RN COURIF R

We had a lunch. We had bread
and butter."

"We played we were Robinson
Crusoe. We churned butter. We
put sour cream In the bag. We each
shook it. We put spoon in the jar
and took the butter out of the bag.
We had about half a teacup full."

— Leonard Sanders.

"We played we were Robinson
Crusoe. We churned butter. We
each shook it. We saw yellow butter.
We drank the butter milk. We took
a spoon to get the butter out. We
washed it. We put salt on the butter.
We had a little lunch.

— Paul Spahr

Below is given the letter informing
Mr. McGilvrey of the action o he
Board of Trustees of the Kent Normal
School on his resignation. Perhaps
some will be interested in seeing this
copy of the official docnment.

My dear Mr. McGilvrey:-

At a regu-
lar meeting of the Kent State Normal
School Board of Trustees, held at
the State Reformatory, Mansfield,
Ohio, today, your resignation of the
Presidency of the Kent State Normal
School was presented, discussed, and
fully considered. A motion was made
that the resignation made and signed
by yourself be not accepted. The
resolution to not accept said resignation
received the unanimous affirmation of
our Board. This official act is sent to
you as our final decision of the matter
Respectfully yours,
Edwin F. Moulton,
Pres. Kent Board of
Trustees.

At the regular meeting of the Y. M.
C. A. Tuesday, February 20, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
year beginning with the opening of the
Spring Quarter: president, Theron Cha-
ney; vice president, Herschel Mitchell;
secretary, Ernest McCall; treasurer,
Onno Walters.

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The Boy Scouts, Patrol No. 1 , organ-
ized by Mr. McGilvrey and Mr. Switzer
was the first of its kind in this vicinity.
The idea was carried out of the school
and now the Christian and Methodist
Churches are organizing patrols in
connection with the Sunday School
work.

The training school children visited
Chapel Thursday bringing with them
the color guard and the flag, in re-
membrance of the birthday of the first
president.

The St. John High School Echo of
St. John, Kansas has entered the Con-
test in the semi-monthly class.

Sambo — "Say, Gumbo, do youse
know what am de difference 'tween
poor foli s and rich folks?"

Gumbo — "Well, Sambo, I reckon
as how I don' know. What am dat
difference?"

Sambo— "Well, de rich folks can
git the'r girls' announcement of de
ingagement in one paper and de di-
vorce proceedin's in the next, and
poor folks can't spress demselves
dat away tall."

DON'T FORGET

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DEPOSIT REFUNDED IF YOU
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STUDIO NOT QUITE ON THE SQUARE
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WHEAT STUDIO

Mr. Johnson has contributed an art-
icle to the School News for February,
on Nature Study. The specific sub-
ject discussed is a study cf a grain cf
corn. The article is enriched by the
use of drawings showing the grain in
different positions, making the naming
of the various parts much easier.

If a donkey's ears were one six-
teenth of an inch long, cculd it hsar
a necktie.

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'OLUME IX

MACOMB. ILL., MAR. 7, 1912.

NUMBER XXIX

*EW HEAD OF DEPART-
MENT OF EDUCATION

,h. Walter P. Morgan Has Been
Chosen Head of the Depart-
ment of Education.

The school is fortunate in having
dded to its faculty Mr. Walter P.
Morgan, who comes to us as head of
he department of education and di-
ector of training.

Mr. Morgan is a graduate of the
ndiana State Normal Schocl and of
ndiana University. He has had wide
ixperience in various kinds of teachi-
ng and has been exceptionally suc-
Ksful, first as a grade teacher, then
3t four years as a high school teach-
x, for six years teacher of mathemat"
cs in the Indiana State Normal
School, and for two years superintend-
snt of the public schools of Terre
-!aute, Indiana. For the past two
'ears he has been a graduate student
if the University of Chicago, He has
eceived the degree Ph, M. from Chi-
:ago university and has nearly com-
peted his work for a doctor's degree.

He has made a most favorable im-
wession upon all who have met him
ind both faculty and students are
jlad to welcome him.

Governor Charles S. Deneen was
n Macomb yesterday and made a
speech at the opera house at 1 1 :30.
School was dismissed at 11:15 and a
arge number of students availed
ihernselves of the opportunity of hear-
ng the governor.

The poem printed in another part of
this paper, written by Warner Watson,
is the prize poem accepted by the
Oratorical Board for which was given
a 1912 Sequel. Mr. Watsons poem
was 'chosen over three other good ones.
This will be sung to the air of "Theres
a good time coming."

TP 44""",'

THE WAY SOME FOLKS LOOK
AT THINGS.

THE FIRST ANNUAL
FINAL CLASS CONTEST

BRIGHT PROSPECTS
FOR BEST SEQUEL YET

An Interesting Contest in Piano
Solo, Vocal Solo, and Essay Giv-
-Debate Also a Feature'

en.

The first annual final class con-
test was held in the auditorium Fri-
day night, March 1, 1912. The con-
test was in piano solo, essay, vocal
solo, and there was also a prelimin-
ary debate between the ninth and
e'eventh grades. Every number was
well given and was enjoyed by all
present. The classes contesting were
the ninth grade, tenth grade, elev-
enth grade and juniors.

Miss Grace Cordell represented the
junior class in the piano solo. She
rendered Moskowski's Polonaise with
much feeling and showed that much
time and effort had been devoted to
the preparation of such a difficult se-
lection. As Miss Cordell was the
only contestant in the piano solo, she
was given first place.

Mr. Ernest McCall represented the
eleventh grade in the essay. His
subject was "Vocational Training"
and was well prepared and delivered.

The School Year Book Is Wei
Under Way and Is a True Pic-
ture of Our School Life.

The Sequel is a yearbook published
by the Senior Class of the school.
The Sequel for 1912 is the ninth vol-
ume. An effort is made by those who
are responsible for its publication, to
make the book a full record of the
year's events. The classes of the
school from kindergarden to fac-
ulty, are written up and photographed.
The literary societies are included,
each one having two pages.

Oratory comes in for its share of
notice. Several pages will be devoted
to dramatics. The other organization
such as the sororities and fraternities
wiil have several pages in the beck.
The special departments will also be
represented. Space will alsc be given
to the Manual Arts and Agriculture
departments.

The Sequel for 1912 is being print-
ed by the J. M. Irwin Co. of
Quincy and the Stafford Engraving
Company of Indianapolis does the
engraving. The book will contain 176
pages and will sell at the usual price
$1.00.

Mr. Mitchell Letter entered the es-
say contest for the ninth grade. His
essay, "The History of Starved
Rock," was a full account of the his-
torical events centering about this
point of interest in Illinois. Mr.
I erV-.r was awarded first place by the
judges.

Miss Mamie Thomson was the
last contestant in the essay. "The Call
for Rural Leadership" brought to
light her knowledge of the rural
question.

The next event was the vocal solo.
Miss Hildreth McFeeters entered for
the eleventh grade and sang very ef-
fectively, "A Song of Spring," by
N'eidlinger.

Miss Leona Culp sang "The Mes-
(Continued on pag« 116)

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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER
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MACOMB, ILL. UNDER THE Ai_T OF <_ON-
RESS OF MARCH 3. 1878.

Hoard of Managers.

Senior Paul Leach

Junior Lora Wilson

Twelfth Grade Lester Aileiy

Eleventh Grade Victor Wood

Tenth Grade Clarence Jones

Ninth Grade Lena Andrews

Training School . . . .Elsie Robertson

Platonian Ben West

Emersonian George Mapes

Country School Class . .Ethel Landis
Kappa Phi Gamma ...Evelyn Wyne
Phi Sigma Upsilon

Howard Thompson.
Faculty.. Mr. White, Mr. Hursh

Miss Davis
Ex-Offlcio Mr. McGilvrey

EDITOR TgUY HOYT

ASS'T EDITOR. THERON CHANEY
ILLUSTRATOR. . .VIRGIL CATLIN'
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EDITORIAL

Last week mention was made In
this space of the general good de-
rived from the basketball tourna-
ment this year. The same thing may
as truly be said of the literary con
tests which have been held between
the various classes during the win-
ter. To say that these contests have
been good would be putting it light-
ly. That viewpoint is only the one
of the listener who goes for the en-
tertainment he can get out of it.

The value of these contests is not
to be judged from the excellence of
♦ he programs given, hut by the bene-
fits which those who have taken part
have derived from the work. No one
vho has entered the contest will de-
ry the benefit which he has re-
ceived from his work. The only
chance for improvement is in in-
creasing the number of contestants
next year, thereby making the con-
tests reach as far as possible. Some
are making plans now for next year.
Are you going to be one?

Tint Btandai 'I tnaga i < a i<; t, ,
are an education i.i thcr.i.-e' e~. hi
them may be found the opinions of
: 'I great authorities of today o.i
u.ues:ions of worl.I-wiJe interest In
politics, science, economics and so-
cial problems. The magazine ta ; -L-
in the lilrary is a library of present-
day authors. Many peo; le think of
it as just a place to read st r!e ■•, a»('
rever consider the value of the lead-
ing articles, which are the real meat
of the magazine. "Thus (by real-
ing them) may we grow wiser every
day."

To-morrow is the last day of the
Winter Quarter and also the last day
of school for many boys who will be
called home to begin farming. There
has been for the past few years a
noticeable "thinning of the ranks" at
the beginning of the spring term, due,
no doubt, to the fact that many of the
boys of the school live on the farm:,.

In most canes it is very necessary
that the boys be at home. In some
cases, however, it seems that the
"cali of the wild" is too strong.

It is nice to be out in the open air
about plowing time and this fact over-
shadows in some minds the necessity
for an education.

So many boys are prone to b;lieve
that staying in school for three crfour
springs while the farm work goes on
without them, is nonsense. No mat-
ter if it does seem this way, they I
should bear in mind that if they are
going to farm all their lives there will
be many springs that they may enjoy.
Then, if a few of their years have been
speni in getting a basis for thoughtful-
ness, the springs that follow will be
richer, brighter and more enjoyable be-
cause of the increased knowledge gain-
ed in youthful days.

Rev. Mr. James Spencer Smith
spoke a few minutes in chapel Mon-
day on Specializing in Education.

Mr. Smith is a graduate of th e
University of London and of the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh. He has traveled
in almost every country on the globe
and is a man of large experience.
His talk was greatly appreciated by
the students and faculty.

SIMPLIFIED SPELLING

At the meeting of the State Teach-
er..' A held in Spri>.
December 27-29, 191 l.the
on Simplified Spelling urg
ingiy broad refoms. The Association
as a whole adopted I •
of the committee and, in
the next proceedings of the I
State Teach : be
printed with the spellings recon
ded by the Simplified Spe \ . . rd
in their circular 23.

The committee of the btate Asso-
ciation made a further attempt to
bring Simplified Spelling to the front
by appearing before the Departn ent
of Supeiintendence cf the N. E. A. at
their recent meeting in St. Louis.
This more conservative body refused
to consider favorably any decided
reform in this line. Had the recom-
mendations been confirmed at St.
Louis, it was the intention of the com-
mittee to solicit the interest and co-
operation of all the higher institutions
of learning in Illinois.

How would you like to spell it: Bild,
insted, eg, brekfast, offis, alredy,
carv, lam, dout, hardy, num. iung, re-
ceived, tresury, twelv, geografy, tele-
fone, wal,\t, forener, blusht, toothake?

Rev. Mr Jenkins of the Baptist
church spoke to the girls of the Y.W. I
C. A. Tuesday evening.

Miss Davis is doing some work in the
shop. One of the best taborets made J
ihis year was made by her.

Orders for the 1912 Sequel are now.j
being taken. Since Thursday nearly!
three hundred copies have been spoken!
for.

While attending the Superintendents
section of the N. E. A. meeting at St.
Louis last week, Mr. Mc Gilvrey had
the opportunity of talking to Mr.
Bonser, formerly head of the
department of education here, who-ask-.
ed to be remembered to the students
and faculty of the school.

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STAR GAZERS FAVORED

Canton High School Has Kindly

Loaned the School

It's Telescope

Mr. Drake's astronomy class has
become very much interested in star
study. However, the school so far lias
;n fit to buy equipment for that
line of wotk. Thru the efforts of Mr.
White, Mr. Drake has been able to
borrow a three inch telescope which
is the property of the Canton High
School. The members of the astron-
omy class and all interested in the
subject are very thankful to the
authorities at Canton for this favor.

The instrument has been received
and use will be made of it soon. Mr.
White reports that very good tesuits
can be obtained by its use. He and
Mr. Drake will be glad to conduct a
star-gazing party any convenient time.

VICTORY FOR CANTON

Last Friday night the Norma! team
played their last scheduled game of
the season at Canton with the fast
High School team of that city. For
the second time the Canton boys won
over us by a large score. The Canton
team has not lost a game this year,
and they are now out for the state
championship. They are soon to go to
Decatur to enter the state champion-
ship tournament and v/ill no doubt come
very rear to the top if not entirely so.

Our boys report fine treatment while
there, and a clean game which has
always been the case with Canton.
We were somewhat handicapped be-
cause of Sorensen's being out with an
injured arm. The following is the line-
up: Huey, Rost, forwards; Russel, cen-
ter; Salisbury, Imes, and Bennett,
guards.

The teachers of the Bateman School
of Galesburg in charge of their princi-
pal, Miss V/ilbur, visited the Training
School yesterday observing the work
there. They were entertained by the
critic teachers in the Domestic Sci-
ence Room.

ECHOES FROM A

POPULAR PLACE

The Manual Training Shop Has

Been an Interesting and

Busy Place.

About 275 people old and ycung
have been taking advantage of the
opportunities offered in the Manual
Training Department. The interest in
the work is well worth comment. All
who work there seem to have the
willingness to do their work in the best
possible manner.

Quite a number of boys are making
library tables. At present Clarence
Jones, George Rausch, Carl Eyman,
Homer Venters, Ralph Stickle, Si
Simonson, Ehrman Crawford, and
Harvhy Sanderson are making good
headway in the table business.

Morn's chairs are being made by
George Rausch and Bert Crandail.
Wayne V/etzel and George Salisbury
are making handsome and durable
rockers.

The Simmons Hardware Company
of St. Louis has presented the de-
partment with one of their lastest mod-
els of the Keen Kutter screw driver.

Wood Turning next quarter will be
limited to members of the Country
School Class, the eleventh grade, the
twelfth grade and the Normal.

The Juniors are some what worried
over lesson plans, so they say. One
who knows from experience has said
this to comfort them: The v/orry is
worse than the work. The plan is harder
to write than it is to teach. If a person
knows the subject matter for the first
lesson the method will come somewhat
automatically. Therefore be of good
cheer.

Demonstration lessons are flourish-
ing with the Training School teachers.
Miss Davis has taken her English 21
class for two observations in the Eighth
Grade and Miss Grote with her Country
School Class has observed a lesson in
Grammar in the same grade.

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ARBOR AND BIRD DAYS

Circular for These Days Contains

Contains an Article by

Mr. Bassett.

Circular No. 62, issued by Francis G.
Blair, Superindent of Public Instruction,
announces that Arbor and Bird Days
this year will occur on Friday, April 19,
and Friday, October, 25.

This circular is profusely illustrated,
there being a picture on almost every
page, This school is also represented
in the photographs. A full page pic-
ture taken from last year's Sequel ad-
orns page 39. On page 41 is a very
familiar photograph of two owls
"Lewis" and "Lois" by name. These
pictures are used to illustrate an ar-
ticle on Bird Study by Mr. Bassett.
Articles by several other prominent
educators also appear in the Circular.
The American Quail is discussed by
Mr. L. S. Keyser. "How and Why
Birds Travel", will no doubt interest
many.

These books are for free distribution
as long as they last and a copy may
be obtained from *he office.

The "New Book" shelves in the
Reading room have been very attract-
ive for several days. First several new
books of fiction appeard, then books on
miscellaneous subjects were added, in
all about 175 new books. The work
of making the books ready for usa
has deen done by Miss Foster who is
specializing in Library Administration
and will be granted the special certifi-
cate in that subject in June. The
books will remain on the "New Book"
shelves for one week after the Spring
quarter opens and will then be distrib-
uted to their places in the stack.

The students have been advised to
be vaccinated for smallpox on account
of the prevalence of the disease in
this part of the county.

Word comes from Jay Ruffner to
the effect that he will quit the music
business for a year and manage a farm
for his father in Southern Illinois.

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FACULTY MEN AT DINNER

The Senior boys in the Domestic
Science class gave a dinner to the
men of the faculty Monday evening at
six o'clock. The idea was to prove to
the gentlemen that Domestic Science
is an accomplishment worthy of mas-
culine effort, and no doubt the faculty

men were convinced,

at least none

were sick Tuesday.

Mashed Potatoes

Steak

Nut bread

Brown bread

Butter

Cake

Snow pudding

Coffee

Cream

NORMAL SONG

When the frost is on the pumpkin

And the football's put in play,
Western Normal's represented

In the thickest of the fray.
West;rn players all are game

Western rooters are the same
As they work for Normal's fame

Fighting on, on, on.

Gold and purple will prevail

In this contest, sure as fate.
Western orators bring honors

To the school and to the state.
We are always in the fight,

Western Normal is all right.
As we're here to prove tonight

Cheering on, on, on.

We've an orator in Stephens

Who has served our Normal well.
And we're here to stand by Stephens

Sounding clear our Normal yell.
And he's sure to prove to you

That for Illinois he'll do.
Here's another cheer for Stevens.

Stephens is our man.

— Warner Watson

Mr. Keefer and Mr. Drake attend-
ed a conference at Champaign where
the subject of filteration water plants
was under discussion. Mr. Keefer
read a paper on the installation and
successful operation of the Macomb
Water Plant, and Mr. Drake being in-
terested in the subject and making
weekly tests of the water here accom-
panied him. On the way Mr. Drake

stopped off at Decatur to inspect the
work of two graduates of this school
Miss Flora Ellis and Miss Merl Willard,
who are prospective candidates for the
second diploma in June.

The ninth grade literary societies
engaged in a spelling match last
Thursday in which the Lincclns v/on
over the Irvings.

FIRST ANNUAL FINAL CLASS
CONTEST

(Continued from page 113)

sage" by Carlyle. She represented
the tenth grade.

Miss Hope McGillivray entered
for the juniors. Her solo,

"Retrospection," by BischofI, was
given with rare interpretation and
feeling. She was awarded the first
place by the judges.

The preliminary debate between
the ninth and eleventh grades was
spirited throughout. The question
was: Resolved, That in the interest
of Universal Peace, the United States
should disarm. Mr. Harry Heffner
and Miss Myrrhene Newsome sup-
ported the affirmative for the ninth
grade, and Mr. Onno Walters and
Mr. Theron Chaney upheld the nega-
tive for the eleventh grade. The
decision was in favor of the nega-
tive.

This was the first of the annua!
class contests. It is needless to
say that those who have taken part
this year have derived much benefit
from it, and that it will continue to
grow in interest now that it is es-
tablished.

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the teachers there in regard to the pos-
sible establishment of extension courses
for their benefit.

The Juniors are taking up b
binding this week.

Mr. McGilvrey departed for Quincy
this morning to meet his regular ex-
tension classes.

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MACOMS. ILL., MAR. 21, 1912.

NUMBER XXX

OVEJV3EIMT BN EDUCATION

PRESIDENTS AND
TRUSTEES OF THE
FIVE STATE NORMAL
SCHOOLS MEET AT
SPRINGFIELD FOR
THEIR FIRST AN-
NUAL CONFERENCE

lormal School Extension at

Macomb Presented by Prin-

pal McGilvrey.

Because of the general interest
lanifested in the new work begun
I the Western Illinois Normal
chool in conducting extension class-
? for teachers at work in the schools
lis issue of the Courier is devoted
Dtirely to this subject, as presented
t the conference last week in
pnngfield.

Macomb By-Stander: "Trustees
f the five State Normal Schools of
IMnois met in Springfield for their
rst annual joint conference yester-
ay. There were three sessions;
iorning, afternoon and evening.

"Reports from Springfield are that
h,e hit of the meeting was made by
'rincipal J. E. McGilvrey of the Ma-
omb Normal School, whose address
n the extension work of normal
nhools was something new. The
Tacomb school is the first school in
^e state to take up this work, and
L has proven successful. In short,
he extension work is work by em-
'oyed teachers, who carry one or
wo studies while teaching and re-
rive credit for work done. They
:ay secure credits in tMs way which,
.-'th one yoar"s work in the schooi,
nables them to graduate. In Quincy
lone there are now over seventy
p?.chers taking extension work from
be Macomb Normal. A member of
be faculty goes to Quincy at stated
r.tervals and has charge of the
iork."

In presenting this subject at the
ipringfie'd meeting, Mr. McGilvrey
I'ade the point that the Normal
chools are not making any marked
repression upon the educational situ-
tion so far as the number of train-

Wl^N

ed teachers is concerned, and that
through extension study the norma!
schools might become far more use-
ful than they are now to the public
schools in their territories. The fact
was emphasized that the Macomb_
Normal is largely a local schoc',
more than sixty percent of its attend-
ance being from McDonough county.
It was further pointed out that there
are three counties in the Military
Tract with no students in attendance,
Two counties with but one student
each in attendance, another with but
two, another three, and two other
counties with but four students each
in attendance. Of the three thousand
five hundred teachers in the Military
Tract but one hundred ninety-four
are normal graduates, one hundred
thirty of these being from Old No-
mal and the other sixty-four from
all other normals combined. Thus
the Military Tract Normal School at
the end of its tenth year has less
than sixty-four graduates teaching
in the territory it is intended Lc
serve. These are striking facts that
call for careful consideration from
those responsible for the policy of
the school. It was pointed out that
what is true of the Military Tract is
true everywhere. It is an established
fnct that the normal schools com-
bined are not putting as many train-
ed teachers into the schools as the.e
are new positions created due to the
natural growth of population. There-
fore, it would seem that the total
school situation is not greatly bet-
tered by the normal schools as now

organized and administered.

The development and improve-
ment of the high schools everywhere
with their graduates better fitted for
teaching, is perhaps partly respon-
sible for this lack of vital connection
between the normal school and th>_
great body of public school teachers.
But the low salaries paid to elemen-
tary teachers making it difficult, 11
not impossible, for the teacher to
take an extended professional course
of study is largely responsible for
the present situation. To meet this,
some educational leaders are advo-
cating the payment of a salary to the
student while in attendance at the
normal school according to the plaD
for payment of cadets at West Point
and Annapolis. This would be an
ideal plan, but because of the cost in-
volved it is likely to remain a plan.
The only other effective way of
widening the circle of the normal
school's influence is through the sys-
tematic organization of extension
study.

In presenting this need for some
change in normal school administra-
tion looking forward to a closer and
r~ore vital relation with the teacher
in the field, Mr. McGilvrey said:
"Our new line of extension study
grew out of an attempt to co-operate
with the superintendent and school
hoard at Quincy in their effort to es-
tablish a new salary schedule based
upon better professional preparation
This schedule intends that all teach-
ers in Quincy within a certain speci-
fied period shall be normal school

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graduates. The possibility of mai '•
t?ining such standard was condition
ed upon the possibility of worthy
and efficient teachers while in s?r-
vice undertaking a systematic course
^ f professional study looking toward
graduation from the normal school.
The summer quarter alone would nit
meet this need, and hence the a: v
rnngement for extension class work,
which, combined with summer ses-
sions and a short leave of absence,
would enable the teachers to meet
the new standard for better profes-
sional preparation. The outcome of
the plan has been a marked benefit
to the Quincy schools, the develop-
ment of eager, earnest spirit of study
in the teachers, and a decided bene-
fit to the Macomb Normal sehool.
More than thirty of the Quincy teach-
ers began a planned course of study
at the last summer session, and it
was remarked by the members of tho
faculty that even this small numb-v
of earnest, hard-working students
stimulated to some extent the whole
student body; their spirit communi-
cated itself to others, and the ten-
dency in the summer quarter to visit
rather than study was notably less."

ATTIDUDE OF SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENTS TO-
WARD NORMAL SCHOOL
EXTENSION STUDY

Cooperation Necesssary to Suc-
cess of New Movement Assured.

"The idea of extension studies for
teachers at work in school seems to
rap to be an excellent one. I am not
?.rquainted with tha details of the

plan, but it ueen s to n ■•■ m u b gocl
could be ace mplished for our teaca-
ers now in school by bu< h a systeui
o' study.

"I would like to try it here in
Galesburg, but our arrangements for
this year have all been made, and It
would be very difficult to bring id
such a course during this school
year. If your institution proposes
to give such courses next your, I shah
s>.rr?nge for some work along thid
line. I do not know who originated
the scheme of work, but it appeals to
me very strongly."

SUPT. W. L. step: LIC,

Galesburg.

"I have been much interested in
what I have heard of your plans fo. -
extension study for teachers through-
out the state. There is no question
in my mind as to the value that
could be derived through such work,
and it occurs to me that some of our
tenchers would quite likely be inter-
ested in taking such courses.

Under the general management of
the Teachers' Club many of our
teachers are doing regular class
work in German, French, art, litera-
ture, music, physiography, etc. They
employ someone who is known to
have superior ability along a special
l'ne to direct the work. These class-
es meet every two weeks.

"I think that many of them would
ge interested in taking up other sub-
jects of study under teachers from
your institution who are giving at-
tention to this extension work. At
any rate, all who are in public school
work know that there is great ne°d
along these lines, and I should be in-
terested in seeing what you propose
to offer."

SUPT. GERARD T. SMITH,

Peoria.

"I am heartily in accord with your
plan of extending the influence and
the benefits of your school so that
they may become accessible to teach-
ers who feel that they are not a».e
to do work in residence. When I
first heard of your work in this line,
T felt that I had heard the best worJ
that had come from a State Normal
School in ten years."

SUPT. T. S. HENRY,

Elmwood.

"I believe your plan of extension
«t"dy is a good one, and I hope the
necessary arrangements will be
rrade. It will, I think, reach tho*;.'
ttaohers of energy who do not fir.J

■
the school }e;.r."

3 LPT. E A

"I heartily i .^n. Tj«

teachers of the state are not earrffl
to the training school last e
supply the schools with trained help,
A number of them will n
training unless it is carried to them,
ae they cannot afford it. Those wlj
r.re worthy and ambitious will em-
brace the opportunity and the others)
can in time be weeded out.

"I may be able to do something
noxt year along the line myself. Will
confer with you about it in the fo(
ture. Some feature are not qu'.U
clear yet." SUPT. R. C. HIETT,
Bushneli

"You may remember I attended i
meeting of the Faculty Club of Ma-
ccmb last March, and we (Mr. Bay-
liss, yourself, Supt. Bauman, and T"
discussed the question of normal ex-
tension. I think the plan a most ex«
cellent one. I have not discussed l
much with our teachers here but be
lieve a good class could be formed a.
Abingdon. I am sure the necessitj
for it exists. I hope the plan maj
be worked out, and shall te glad tc
do anything to help it along."

SUPT. A. C. BUTLER,
Abingdon

"I certainly have been very mucr
interested in your plan of extensioi
work as conducted at Quincy. Fron
the first it appealed to me as a verj
far reaching and valuable function
ing of the normal school. Since talk
ing the matter over carefully wit'
Supt. Bauman, I am more than eve:
convinced that if this policy can 1)<
extended widely in the Military Trac
H will have great power for good
Many teachers do not know the valm
of professional work and will not ej
periment if it costs too much. B;
bringing this work to their er,
<?oors and by having it take the plac
of work of a miscellaneous sort r&
quired by the superintendent, the;
set a taste and an insight into pro
fessional training, and many, n<
doubt, will follow it up to the conn
pletion of the course.

"The inspiration along this lim
with a class of teachers designated i
certainly worth everything to th
community in which they teach.
should like to see this policy full,
carried out, and hore that yo i
school, as originator of this plat!

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;ay see fit to continue it."

SUPT. W. A. FURR,

Jacksonville.

"As I have said to you personally,
before this, I am heartily in favor of
this plan. I think it is practical a .id
I think another year we can arrange
for our teachers to take up this liaa
of work. When the time comes to
place this before them, I shall take
it up and afterwards inform you a3
to our neads here. You may quote
me as being heartily in favor of the
plan." SUPT. G. W. GAYLOR,

Canton.

"Your plan of extension study for
teachers seems to me to be a good
f-ne. The teachers need something
o f this kind, and I think a number
of them would avail themselves of
the opportunity if placed within their
reach. This would improve the vvork
ir the public schools and enable
many children to be benefited by th".
normal methods who do not now
have that chance.

"As long as teachers' salaries are
as low as they are, it is impossible to
nave trained teachers in all the
schools, and the children must suffer
urless some plan is put into opera
t'cn which will reach the teacher
without his attending a normal
school. If the teacher received cred-
its for his work, many of them might
complete the normal course, which
they are now unable to do."

PRIN. J. K. NEUMANN,

Oquawka.

"I do not know enough about tho
extension study plan as yet to pass
upon it. My general impression of
i\ however, is that it ought to be
immensely useful.

"I have talked with one or two
outside men about it who seem to
th'nk it will not be practicable, but
it impresses me that this is the on ; y
way that a teacher without means
will get training, unless she has more
ambition than the average person.

"I have felt that we shall want to
try this, and I hope to talk with you
more about it at St. Louis."

SUPT. R. G. JONES,
Kewane ■

"I was much pleased with the W.
I. S. N. S. plan of extension wo-k, as
presented by Miss Hamilton at the
Kewanee institute.

"It seems to me that there is a
feld here worth careful thought. It
the school can be brought to the

working teachers, those who fo* - any
'e'son arc unable to go to school
and at the same time give them tne
o\ ] ortunity to continue their teach-
ing work, surely the usefulness of
the normal will be greauy iu*ijasej.
"I am in'erested in seeing the ex-
periment tried out, and hope thit
your normal will hold on until defi-
nite conclusions can be drawn as to
t'.ie value of the work."

SUPT. J. U. WHITE,
Galva, Illinois

PLANS FOR EXTENSION
STUDY AT OTHER NOR-
MAL SCHOOLS

Columbia University and
Teachers College'

Courses in extension teaching are
planned for two classes of students:
First, men and women who can give
only a portion of their time to study
and who desire to pursue subjects
included in a liberal education of
the character and grade of a college
or professional school, but without
any reference to an academic degree;
second, those who look forward to
qualifying themselves to obtain in
the future academic recognition, in-
volving acceptance of the work
which they may satisfactorily com-
plete in entension teaching.

At Morningdale Heights and at
Newark, N. J., evening classes are
maintained for extension work. At
Brooklyn, courses arranged in a se-
ries of three years are regularly
given.

A !nrp-p "umber of other courses in
varied su^'eots will be given late in
the afternoon and on Saturday,
which wiU reneat those in liberal
studies offered in the colleges of the
university. These are given in the
same manner and often by the same
instructors as the regular courses.
In many instances university credit
will be granted.

Numerous courses will be given at
various centers. These will be either
regular courses of collegiate grade
or those preliminary thereto, offered
weekly or fortnightly.

Students of Columbia College and
Barnard College will be allowed to
attend extension courses which are
approved by the committees on in-
struction, and will be allowed o
fount them toward the degree cf A.
B. and B. S., under the following
r egulations:

1. The election of extension coar-

se.- must be approved by the con
nittees on instruction.

2. Students will not be allowed
to exceed a total of I !i hours pei
week (16 hours in Barnard College)
including the hours of extension
courses, save for reasons of weight
and by the special permission of t'ife
committees on instruction.

3. Students desiring these coui-
ses to count toward the degrees of
A. B. and B. S. must obtain at least
a grade of C.

Teachers College will continue to
give, as hitherto, college credit for
extension courses.

Ohio State Normal College

Athens, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1911.
I am in receipt of your recent com-
munication in which you ask con-
cerning the Extension work at the
Ohio University, and the State Nor-
mal College. In reply I will say that
this is the second year that we have
attempted such work, and we are all
very well satisfied and some of us are
enthusiastic over the results. It has
been pretty much in its experimental
stage, but we are now passing out
of that condition. I think the best
way to get you acquainted with it is
to narrate in brief what we have
done. Our purpose in the first place,
was to carry the work of the Univer-
sity out farther than the college
campus; to give a great many teach-
ers who have never had college or
Normal School training an opportu-
nity to supplement their education;
to aid those teachers who are work-
ing out, by slow process, a course by
attending the summer school only;
and to possibly engage the interests
of teachers who perhaps never would
come to college halls. To the end,
in the fall of 1910 I organized in
Nelsonville a class in Sociology,
taught by Prof. Treudley. At the
holiday season the class reorganized,
some fifteen or eighteen in number,
by taking up the subject of Ethics,
taught by Mr. Treudley. In the
spring term they continued their or-
ganization by taking a course in
History of Education under Dr. Gard.
This fall term of 1911 we have two
organizations in Nelsonville, one with
twenty-one members in it, studying
Agriculture under Dr. Mathey; the
other taking Beginners' German un-
der Dr. Claassen, and I am told that
the Nelsonville center will maintain
its organization throughout the
year. Another center organized last
year was one at Pomeroy, where

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The We: i El ■ ! oub i ef

fourteen teachers pursued two
courses throughout the year, one in
the History of Education and the
other in the Methods of Geography,
taught by myself. This class is not
in organization th's year. Another
center is at Logan. There last year
we had sixteen members who took
two courses, one in Geography and
one in Elementary Course of Study,
conducted by Dean Williams. This
center has increased its membership
to twenty-one and are now taking
Elementary Agriculture. A center
was also organized last year at Jack-
son, Ohio, with eighteen members
in it. This class has no organization
this year, but its place has been
taken by a much larger class in the
town of Wellston, only a few miles
away, where some of the Jackson
people are attending. Another cen-
ter organized this year is one at
Glenford, some forty miles away,
where fourteen people are taking the
History of Education.

In this work a regular professor
of the University conducts one even-
ing each week a class period of two
hours. In this time he aims to cover
essentially what he would in a week's
work in the regular University class.
We find that this can be done very
well, for the student usually is morj
mature in mind than the average
college student, and besides it is
about all the outside study she has,
consequently has plenty of time to
prepare the lessons, do collateral
readings and make ample reports.
I have found in the classes I have
personally conducted and the other
instructors, with one exception, unite
in saying that at the end of the terms
these students pass as good an exam-
ination as do the students regularly
enrolled in the University. For this
work we give them the same credit
as if they were here in college. The
experienced teachers take up the
work with very much enthusiasm.
In my Wellston class I have the
Superintendent of Schools, a grad-
uate of Miami; the Principal of the
High School, a graduate of Hamil-
lon, New York; a High School teach-
er, a graduate of Valparaiso; and
other teachers who have been teach-
ing from fifteen to twenty years. We
do not give a diploma for work done
exclusively by the extension method,
but we find that this extension work
is having an influence in bringing
students to the Summer School, as
well as to the regular winter cours-
es. All some teachers need is a taste
of college credit; to work out during

the course of a winter several hun-
dred hours, they see the results of it,
and they are be^irin'ng to ta
coming to the Summer School or
dropping out a year or two and tak-
ing the course.

Very truly,
(Signed) <". L. MARTZOLFF,
Alumni and Field Secretary.

State Normal School,
Springfield, Missouri

"The faculty has done much wo'ii
outside the school during the past
year. Extension classes were main-
tained in seven places, conducted bj
many members of the faculty from
the departments of pedagogy, En-
glish and history. . . Any class
of ten in one subject may be organ-
i7ed wthin easy reach of Springfield.
The amount of work for an entire
year will be two term credits.

State Normal School, War-
rensburg, missouri

At the request of Mr. Wise, I a-a
writing you to tell you that we re-
gard our extension .vork with a^-
much value as we do the resident
work. This is my third year doing
such work, and I am thoroughly sat-
isfied that our school is doing ho
work of more value, to it and the
students taught. I should have said
this is my third year in s'edalia, and
the work will be continued next ye. r
I shall be glad to furnish details.

Very truly,
(Signed) C. A. PHILLIPS,

Head Supt. P-?d.

The Galesburg Republican
Register Editorial

At the meeting of the various Nor-
mal Boards and principals at Spring
field, Wednesday, this question «ame
up for serious consideration. All
were impressed with the smallness of
the product of the normal school^,
and with the large number teaching
who have not had the scientific pre-
paration to instruct.

It has become clear that the pro-
portion of untrained teachers to
trained teachers is very large. The
great majority of the teachers in the
schools of the state have no normal
school preparation. They step from
the recitation room Into the school

room, there themselves

the task of teaching without prepa

ration.

normal schools thus being
t draw but a fra< tic
their walls, it stan.-ls to reason th.u
to get the largest good out of I
schools there should be
some plan by which they can
the teachers who cannot afford to
attend. The normal schools si
bo in some sort of communication
With every teacher within their re-
ive territories and should he
the illuminating center for the com-
men school interests of that terri
tory binding the schools into a unit.

Thus the suggestion made at O'
conference should have weight. .11
a very illuminating and intelligible
address Principal McGilvrey, of the
Western Illinois State Normal School
at Macomb, outlined the experiments
undertaken there in extension work,
b" which the instructors of the insti-
tution are conducting classes in
Quincy, and other cities. According
to this talk, this work, although yet
in the beginning stage, has aroused
Veen interest and gives promise oi
great usefulness. This is taking the
normal school to the teachers active
ly engaged.

The normals of the state, when
one considers their gifted faculties,
their magnificent equipment, a^J
their large cost, as a whole are not
ir. iking the best of their fields. m
the aggregate they have plants and
grounds that represent a million and
a half dollars of investment by the
state. To pay their ordinary expen-
ses annually costs in the neighbor-
hood of half a million dollars. There
is a demand by each of them for fur-
their equipment to meet the needs of
the times. There is furthermore a
feeling that they are not doing the
pedagogical work that they might
for all the schools, but that they a:'e
supplying schools for the front rank
o' the teaching profession. If these
r w lines of work are undertaken
a id the schools become something
more than ; nstruction within four
walls, then the people will be all the
n ore willing to give assistance.

WANTED- ONE OR TWO GIRLS
to occupy a furnished front room.
Mrs. M. E. Hosman,

320 N. McArthur St.

Subscribe for the COURIER

The Western Courier.

VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., MAR. 28. 1912.

NUMBER XXXI

10 ORGANIZE COL-
LEGE PUBLICATIONS

Meeting to Ee Held at Peoria to

Create Co-eperntion among

College Periodicals.

Several days ago the editor recei*

ei. : a letter irom Mr. J. E. Shatfo'-u

igistiar oi Wi.liam and V^sl ,

e, imiting the Courier to se;n

i o or more rei resentatives to a cou-

• at Peoria, April 13, 1912. A

it v. i ii; ;-isgs from the letter will ex

I kaiQ the purpose of the meeting.

The Courier wishes to complime u
ivement. As surely as the news
j uters and magazines of this countr
cert an influence on our nations
life, so can the college papers exe t
an infiuen.e on college life. Nr» i ':<
will dispute the fact that the ma o'
people quite commonly condemn • Al-
leges a.?d look upon college students
sometimes as moral wrecks. This is
a sad state of affairs. It it improv-
ing, no doubt; but this false idea
can be eradicated first by creating a
sertiment against all forms of sus-
picious practices; and pecond, by
informing the general public as •
the high order of work the colleges
are attempting to do. The papei is-
sued by the colleges throughout C
state are already doing much, b it
they are not making full use of their
opportunities. An organization sue';
as is proposed above will certainly
do much to unify and elevate the ■ .--
forts made by the college publica
t'ons. The Courier, therefore, is
heartily in sympathy with this mov t -
ffient and will make a brave effort to
re represented at Peoria April 1.

The object of this convention is.
primarily, the organization of an in-
stitution to be known as the Illinois
Inter-Collegiate Press Association,
'.he purpose of such associations be-
ing to create a co-operation among
the college periodicals of the stat°
and a resulting efficiency and in
crease of influence.

This movement is perhaps of
greater moment than any which has
ever yet taken place among college*
of this state. It is a progressive fe
ture which the colleges of the live
state of Wisconsin have adopted an '
(Continued on page 124)

SIGNS OF SPRING

THE ILLINOIS WATER
SUPPLY ASSOCIATION

Trustee Keefer Delivers a Paper
at the Meeting of This Associ-
ation at Champaign.

"An association of those interested
in obtaining and conserving an
abundant supply of pure water in
tl."> state of Illinois."

The fourth annual meeting of this
asociation was held at the Univer-
sity of Illinois March 5th and 6th.

Two hundred and fifty men, may-
ors, members of boards of health,
and city councils, chemists, physi-
cians, and engineers, met in the in-
terest of a pure and a safe water sup-
ply.

A portion of the program will in-
dicate the nature of the meeting:

Limitation of Stream Pollution —
Paul Hanson, University of Illinois.

The Necessity of Safe Water Sup-
plies in the Control of Typhoid Fe-
ver — Dr. A. J. McLaughlin, Wash-
ington, D. C.

Typhoid Fever and the Water Sup-
ply of Mattoon — R. A. Gabbert, Mat-
tcon.

Characteristics of Typhoid Fever
Outbreaks — H. N. Parker, University
of Illinois.

(Continued on pagt 124)

MANUAL TRAINING

EXTENSION WORK

George Rausch is Conducting

Classes for the Fourth Ward

Children on Saturdays.

The opportunities offered by the
Manual Training Shop have been re-
cently extended to a number of pupils
of the fourth ward school in this city.
Miss Eula Cordell, '09, who is principal
of that school, offered to allow the boys
of her room to come out to the shop
every Saturday forenoon if they wish-
ed to work.

About fifteen boys xpressed a de-
sire to take up the work and George
Rausch volunteered to teach the class.
For several weeks many of the boys
have been coming to the shop every
Saturday morning regularly and they
have been making much progress.
The first few lessons were intended to
teach them the use of 'the tools. At
present they are able to work quite in-
dependently of the teacher and show a
live and healthy interest in their
undertaking.

The girls of the same room becom
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EDITORIAL

No undertaking of this school is
more popular among the teachers of
this locality or adds more to the pop-
ularity of the school in general than
the Summer Term's work. Already
arrangements are being made for the
Summer School and the program of
classes has been printed. These print-
ed programs will be included in the
Summer School Annoucement but
single copies can be secured by writing
to the Principal.

Besides the very complete courses,
the subjects required of Normal School
graduates in taking the examination
for a state teachers' certificate will be
offered by way of review. These are
Psychology and Principles of Teach-
ing, History of Education, and Eng-
lish. This arrangement will enable
our graduates to write on this exami-
nation with the feeling that they are
fully prepared for it.

Lives of great men all remind us,
As we o'er these pages turn
That we often leave behind us
Letters thatwe ought to burn.
With apoligies to Longfellow and
others.

H.T.

A certain young man by the name
of "Spike" attended a sermon at a
certain town one Sunday. His friends
say he ate too much at the noon meal.
At least he took a little jonrney to
"Slumberland" during the discourse,

The Western Courier

g the reverend gentleman to
pause and say, "Wake that young man
up back there." Of i would

not be funny if the sermon had not had
for its title "Hell". Is jhe joke on
Spike, the preacher, or Hades?

A small office has recently been
placed in the east end of the second
floor hall for the librarian. Here all
the work of the library, such as cat-
aloguing and preparing books for
use in the library, will ce done It will
give some much needed room for
bocks in the stack room which here-
tofore has been filled up with desks.

ORATORICAL CONTEST

The Annual Inter-Normal Oratorical
Contest between this School and
Normal University will be held in the
auditorium tomorrow night. Mr.Elon
A. Messenger will represent Old Nor"
mal audhis oration is, "The Laborer
and Society." Mr. Ross Stephens
will represent Western Normal and his
oration is, "Universal Peace."

Directly after the program an in-
formal reception will be given for the
two orators in the Music Room by
the Junior Class and the Oratorical
Board of Control to which all who at-
tend the contest are invited.

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE

A conference of Normal School
presidents in the United States was
held at the Auditorium Hotel in Chi-
cago March 2 0-21, and Mr. McGil-
vrey, representing this Normal
School, was present.

The "Problem of Normal School
Extension" was discussed by Presi-
dent Jos. H. Hill of Emporia, Kan-
sas, and Mr. McGilvrey was called
upon to explain certain phases of the
plan as It is conducted here. This
would indicate that cur plan of ex-
tension is attracting nation-wide
attention. Certainly a new move-
ment is being felt all along the
educational line.

Y. M. C. A. SOCIAL

After the debate Friday evening
the Y. M. C. A. boys gave a reception
to the boys of the school in the mu-
sic room. Here music was had on
the graphophone and several enjoya

enu of oyster

served. This was the

i. .

ard vas evident, by the

ion of the boys of their >
n ent of t!;3 evening.

ELEVENS WIN TOURNAMENT

The last game of the tournament
was played Thursday evening, March
7, betv/een the eleventh and t
grade teams. It was not a regular
tournament game however, as
teams were tied for first place at the
end of the tournament. This game
broke the tie and gave the eleventh
grade the victory and also the chs
onship pennant for the season of 1912.
The score was as clc^e as the game,
it being 17-12. The game was not"
only close but was fast and exciting
throughout. Much enthusiasm was
shown by the large crowd of rooters.
This was a final climax to the gen-
eral rivalry which had been prevalent
throughout the day before the game
was called.

This ended the first basket ball
tournament held here, which has been
very good and also very beneficial to
those who participated in it.

The line-up follows:

Twelfth Grade Eleventh Crade

R. Wilson,

capt. R.F.

Wyne

Townley

S.F.

Walters, capt.

Watson

Croxton

Smith

R.G.

CWilson

Crandall

L.G.

Black

Beacom

Sub.

Malcomson

Referee, Walrath
Umpire, Sorensen
Timekeeper, Dobson
Score-Keeper, McCall

Eight hundred pamphlets advertis-
ing the fourth annual Neighbor Field
Meet are now ready for distribution.
They were printed on the Courier
Press.

The Western Courier

123

C OL
ncipal
>f the John Swaney schcol located at
McNabb. 1!!. in a communication to
Mr. Johnson describes his work there
md briefly outlines the important
work of the institution.

It ha:- been some time since 1 have
near J from the Biology department
work directly, but I assure you
I am as much interested in it as when
I was assisting. Every day brings prob-
lems made easier by my work there. I
am teaching Physics, Chemistry,
Agriculture, and Civics. Physics and
Chemistry are taught each year while
four years work in Agriculture is given.
This alternates, two years being giv-
en each year. As I have never given
you a character sketch of my work per-
haps it would be a good time now be.
fore the evolution is lost.

A year's course in physics is given-
Our laboratory has been equipped
more fully this year enabling us to do
much better work than heretofore.
We give a year in Chemistry, six
months of the year Inotganic Chem-
istry.

1 am giving cne course in Agricul-
ture this semester,-- Horticulture.
This course consists of the study of in-
sects injurious to fruit growing, with
methods of prevention. The last half
of the semester is given over to budd-
ing, grafting, and pruning. Besides
caring for our school or orchard we do
work in neighboring orchards. Each
member of the class will graft and pre-
pare trees for the setting out of an
orchard to be his own. The trees
are to be taken away from here in a
year or two.

Agronomy was given last semester
consisting the first half semester
of the study of injurious and
beneficial insects and weeds with
method of eradication. The last half
semester of this course was corn judg-
ing. The course in corn judging led
up to the establishing of a county corn
show by the John Swaney School.
The funds for purchasing the cups and
for necessary expenses were donated
by the people of the community. The
show permits all boys and girls in the

county under 21 years of age to < m
pete. The cups are permanent prop-
erty of the show, to remain at the
school. The winner's name with the
date is engraved on the cup. I believe
this will mean as much as a money
premium, I am in hopes more. Our
first show, March 8th. was a success,
and many have expressed the opinion,
that it will surely create an interest of
better corn growing in the country.
Tha board of education has been very
liberal v/ith us this year, adding to the
library, apparatus for the physical and
chemical laboratories, agricultural ap-
paratus, a table and a cupboard to the
domestic science department. Our
school gave an entertainment not long
ago which netted us $85.00; this will
be spent for linen, silver and chinaware
for our Domestic Science department,
In the last two years the John
Swaney School has swelled its ranks
from forty-five to sixty in the High
School; about the same in the grades.
Our building is now loaded to its
greatest capacity. A further increase
means first more room. Now that I
am to leave in June I many times
feel as though work here has but
begun. However, I feel it my duty to
make better preparation for work and
go on to the University in September.
Very Sincerely,

R. L. Eyman.

ELEVENS WIN DEBATE

The last feature of the very excell-
ent program of inter-class contests in
Declamation, Music, Essay, and De-
bate was the Debate held between the
Eleventh grade representatives and rep-
resentatvies from the twelfth grade'The
question was "Resolved: that the
United States in the Interest of Uni-
versal Peace should disarm."

The affirmative side of the question
was upheld by Mr. Owen Pratt and Mr.
Lester Allely representing the Twelfth
grade. The negative view was argued
by Mr. Onno Walters and Mr. Theron
Chaney chosen from the eleventh
grade.

Both sides of this much argued ques-
tion were well presented and some good
points in debate were brought out. The

judges, Mr, Dickerson, Mr. Morgan,
and Mr. Bassett decided in favor of
the negative, two to one.

The winning of this debate gives the
elevens one and a half points toward
winning the prize offered by the Ora-
torical Board of Control. However,
the Junior class has won more points
than any one other class so the picture
will be presented to it.

ORGAN DEDICATION

Plans have been in progress some
time looking toward the dedication of
the new organ directly after it is in-
stalled. It was first thought the serv-
ices could be held on Easter Sunday
but owing to an unavoidable delay at
the factory it is feared the organ will
not be in working order by that time.

If it is not, the services will be post-
poned one week if necessary. The
Grand Army of the Republic of this lo-
cality has accepted an invitation to at-
tend in a body and the Knights Temp-
lar have also been invited.

Miss Shamel expects to have a very
beautiful program prepared for the oc-
casion. At present a chorus of sixty
voices is being drilled on Farmer's Mass
in B Flat and the indications are that a
fine musical treat will be the result.
The solo parts will be taken by Miss
Louise Tunnicliff and Miss Evelyn
Wyne. Mrs. LeRoy Stocker will sing
a solo, "Repentir," by Gounod, accom-
panied by the organ, piano, and violin.
The Nevin quartet will also furnish
some of the music for the program,
and a double quartet of mixed voices
will also be a feature.

If the weather is fair the auditorium
will undoubtedly be overcrowed and
certainly a fine program will be given.

The following is the final standing
ing of tht teams at the close of the
season:

Teams Games Won Lost Pct.

E'evens 6 5 1 .833

Twelves 6 4 2 .667

Nines 5 3 2 .600

Tens 5 2 3 .400

Normal 5 I 4 .200

C.S.Class 5 1 4 .200

I2 4

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(Continued from page 121)
>\hich has been in vogue in lov, a ••
u few years, and litis r,roduced «• >
satisfactory results. It is strju,,.
urged that every paper in the stale
be present at this convention, h 1-
high time that the college paper., 0:'
this state were beginning to broaden
out into their legitimate fields of a^
tivity, not only as merely local agents
but also as units of a co-operativ.
union for the advancement of com-
mon student interests of all kinds
among the state colleges.

There will be a committee apponi'-
ed at the state convention whose
duty it v ill be to make an investiga-
tion of press associations now in us"
ard to ascertain therefrom the best
steps to be taken toward the forma-
tion of our state association. A im-
port of their work will be published
at a date soon after the convention
in all of the college papers which are
at that time members of the associa-
tion.

The banquet which will be served
the evening of convention day wi'
be followed by a program of spo >
ers who will tell us something of the
nature of such organizations anJ
point out the things which we ma}
hope to accomplish from such an o
ganization. Other speakers will treat
of the benefits of co-operation which
may be derived from a complete co-
operation among the several s-'fl "1
periodicals.

This movement will be watch id
with great interest by colleges in oth-
er states, and it is highly important
that we carry this proposition .«. a
successful issue, which cannot be
hoped for without the united co-op-
ration of the most representative
schools in the state.

(Continued from page 121)

Hypochlorite Sterilization of Lake
Michigan Waters — Prof. W.Lee Lew-
is, Northwestern University.

Installation and Successful Opera-
tion of a Million Gallon GravityFilter
Plant — John M. Keefer, Mayor of
Macomb.

Filter Plants Illustrated — W. W.
DeBernard, Chicago.

Sanitary Survey of the Mississippi
River Water at Moline — Dr. Edward
r.artow, Secretary of the Associa-
tion, University of Illinois.

Dr. McLaughlin called attention
to the fact that the United States was
very careless in regard to typhoid
fever, being contented with a death-
rnt^ of ^H per 100,000, while the

Uuropean cities run a-; low aa •". or 6, I
He urged good Liter plants, the uoe |
of hypochlorite of li:«e and dal y
bacteriological tests at the

A very important subject dis-
cussed was that of "Hypochlorite o"
Lime" as a destroyer of the typhoid
germ. Us use at Evanston, Niaga-
ra Fulls, Brie, Penn., and other pi; -
r<, where a typhoid < . idemic ba I
started, showed conclusively its ef-
fectiveness in stamping out the dis-
ease. Macomb has used this chem-
ical with her filter plant for nearly
year and will continue to io
so. Ifypccheorite of lime is being
used by nearly all cities which an-
using water from the Great Lakes
without filtering. All of these will
soon be compelled to filter the lake
water.

Much interest was manifested in
the strong paper delivered by our
local trustee, Mayor Keefer. He gav^
a detailed account of the Macomb ft
ter plant as to its construction, co.,'.
and coFt of maintenance, and showed
that it was saving the city mone.-, i-
lt was supplying twice as much \\o
ter to the city at one-half the Cu.-i
ty the old system, and a better 1 id
so f ter water at that. He also pointed
o-tt that in thirty years, at the res
ent rate of consumption, the plant
would pay for itself and interest on
the bonds, and then leave a balat ;
of $14,000 to the city's credit.

Mr. Keefer 's paper was well woi i-
ed, clear, pointed, was well delivered,
and well received. It was especial!"
valuable to those cities which are
soon to install a filter plant, and we
received many requests for eopie„.
His paper was printed in full by but"..
the Macomb dailies for March 6ti.

Tuesday morning the association
held their annual banquet at the col-
lege Y. M. C. A. and Wednesday noon
the mayors and city chemists were
entertained at the University (lub.
The association voted to make tne
University of Illinois their regular
meeting place.

All present felt that this associa-
tion was fostering a good work, and
that it deserved to prosper.

Reported by

J. P. DRAKE

(Continued from page 121)
ing somewhat jealous of the boys ask
edMiss Cordell to allow them to take
upManual Training. The request was
granted and six presented themselves
for work last Saturday morning and
there is a prospect for a larger number

The boys under Mr. Rausch's d*r- H
ection have completed a bench which II
will be u-ed at the school building. The II
remarkable simplicity and low ccct of I
this bench makes it possible for every I
school, city or rural, to provide _ itself I
with one. In a later issue the O.
will Inscribe it more fully and present
a working drawing for the benefit of
teachers and pupils who desire some
such article but find themselves handi
capped by a lack of money.

The significance of this movement
is worthy of notice. First of all, it
shov/s the deep interest pupils find in
shop work. This fact serves at least
two purposes. It tends to keep the pu-
pils in school longer, giving them a
practical basis for study, and it also
supplies the teacher's problem greatly.
In the second place it shows how the
Normal School can be made to serve
the community by stimulating the pro-
gressive spirit in education thru its
many branches of activity.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., APRIL 4, 28, 1912.

NUMBER XXXII

STILL SEEKING BET-
TER ADUUSTMENT

CAN THE NORMAL SCHOOL
ESTABLISH CLOSER RELA-
TIONS WITH TEACHERS
ALREADY AT WORK?

A SUGGESTED PLAN

The following facts concerning
the relative number of State Normal
school graduates in the differnt
parts of Illinois will no doubt be of
interest to the readers of the Cou-
rier:

"There are three thousand five
hundred teachers in the Military
Tract and but one hundred and
thirty-five of these are State Normal
graduates. Thus but one teacher in
twenty-six begins her work with pro-
fessional training. The portion does
not vary greatly for the sections
served by the other normal schools
of the state. For the DeKalb field
it is one in twelve; for the Illinois
Normal University field, one in
twenty-two; for the Charleston field,
one in twenty-five, and for the Car-
bondale field one in twenty-seven.
T^e normal schools are not furnish-
ing more than enough trained teach-
ers to fill the new positions created,
due to the increase of poulation.

The Macomb Normal, wishing to
do everything possible to better con-
ditions in the schools, is considering
a plan by which it is hoped that
many teachers may be able to get one
full quarter's work in residence here
each year. If the response to this
plan should be in proportion to the
needs of the schools, as indicated
by the figures given above, a largely
increased attendance for the spring

LECTURE HERE TO-
MORROW NIGHT

Under the auspices of the Oratorical
Association, Dr. Jerome H. Raymond
will give his lecture, "Russia and Her
Struggle against Autocracy", which
will be illustrated by numerous lantern
slides.

Dr. Raymond is a man of excep-
tionally wide experience. He has trav-
eled in a majority of the civilized
countries of the world. While visiting
these places he has observed conditions
very closely and he has made a ten
thousand dollar collection of lantern
slides. At present he is professor of
economics aud political science at
Knox College. He has held many high
educational positions in the foremost
institutions of the country. Those who
attend will be repaid many times over.
Students holding the regular Ora-
torical course tickets will be admitted.
All other students will be charged fif-
teen cents. Outsiders will be charged
twenty-five cents.

quarter would result. The details of
this plan and some of the possible re-
sults of its adoption are indicated in
the following letter addressed last
week to the county superintendents
of the Military Tract by the princi-
pal of the Normal School:

County Superintendents of the
Military Tract: We wish to know
how many teachers in your county
ciose their schools before April 29th.
If there were need to do so, we could
arrange a quarter's work here, begin-

(Continued

pagt 127)

OLD NORMAL DE-
FEATED AGAIN

Ross Stephens Wins from Old

Normal Man with "America

and Universal Peace".

Friday, March 29, 1912. occurred
the annual State Inter-Normal con-
test in the Auditorium. This contest
was between an orator from the I. S.
N. U. at Normal, Illinois and our own
orator. The winner represents Illinois
in the Inter-State Contest to be held
at Emporia, Kansas in May.

Mr. Ross Stevens, our own orator,
gave the oration, America and Uni-
versal Peace. His oration was a schol-
arly production and was well received.
His delivery was exceptionally clear
and carried well. He well deserved the
favorable decision given him by the
judges.

Mr. Elon A, Messenger represent-
ed Old Normal, giving the oration,
"The Laborer and Society". His
production concerned the position of
the laboring man in society and how
it might be bettered. His delivery
was excellent and the contest was
very close and interesting.

The decision was unanimous in
favor of Mr. Stephens. The judges
were, Mr. Dwight E. Watkins, Dept of
Public Speaking, Knox College.,
Sup't. R. C. Jones, Kewanee,, and
Principal C. R. Maxwell, Qiiincy.

The audience was not as large as
it might have been, but it was appre-
(Continued on pag« 127)

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AT LAST

At last the High School Publication
Contest is at an end. The final decis-
ion of the judges has been given as
fellows:

In the weekly class, The "Canton
Pennant" wen first place over the
Dallas City "Perhaps." Both of these
pnblications are worthy ones and
apparently both have improved since
the beginning of the contest.

In the semi-monthly class, the "St
John(Kansas) High School Echo" won
first place, "The Senior" from Wester-
ly, Rhode Island, a very close second,
and "The Rapid Soo" Sioux Rapids,
Iowa, third. All of these papers were
well composed and well edited and are
worthy of special notice.

In the monthly class, the "Maroon
and White" from Havana, 111. and
"The High School Clipper" from Mon-
mouth, 111., were the only entries. "The
Clipper" was given first place by two
judges and second by one, so it is the
winner over the "Maroon and White"
by only a narrow margin.

The prizes for the winners will be
ready soon. At present the design
is in the hands of the artist and it
will be delivered as soon as the en-
gravers can complete it.

Following are the names of the pap-
ers entered in the three classes and
the editors of each.

"The Pennant," Canton, 111. Gem 0.
Dudley and Leona Onion.

"The Perhaps," Dallas City, 111.
William Baker.

The Western Courier

"The Rapid Soo," Sioux Rapids,
Iowa. Oscar Rosell.

"The St. John (Kansas) High
School Echo," Earl B. Ross.

"The Senior," Westerly, Rhode
Island. Arthur F. Anderson.

"The High School Clipper," Mon-
mouth, 111. Robert Teare.

"The Maroon and White,", Havana,
111. Mary Holdon.

OF INTEREST TO ACADEMY
GRADUATES

Mr. Mc Gilvrey has received a letter
from Harold Gumbart who graduated
from the Academy last year but who
now attends the Carnegie Technical
School of Applied Science. A para-
graph from the letter will explain its
purpose.

"The students of the School of Ap-
plied Science of the Carnegie Tech-
nical Schools have organized a student
committee to bring the advantages of
this institution to the attention of high
school seniors. As a former student
of your school 1 am writing to ask if
you will assist the committee to the
extent of sending me a list of any sen-
iors who are likely to attend college,
especially an engineering school."

The letter also says, "Our school
offers exceptional advantages in the
way of strong courses and well equipp-
ed departments. It is favorably located
with relation to the great industrial
plants of Pittsburgh, which are open
for inspection to our students. The
Carnegie Institute, containing one of
the best collections of technical and
reference books in the country, is
also available.

The Courier is glad to speak a good
word for the school thru its columns
and is also glad to learn that Mr.
Gumbart is studying at a school of
such high standing.

The Emersonian Society met and
elected officers for the spring quarter
as follows: Nelle Brinton, president;
Lester Allely, vice-president; Charlotte
Lanius, secretary; Harlow Wyne, treas-
urer; Freda Haffner, chorister; Paul
Leach, sergeant-at-arms.

CO-OPERATION WITH SEC
ONDARY SCHOOLS

The students will
visit of Dr. Butler from thi
to our 0Ch<
will also remember that his purpc
was to examine our academy an
make a report to the Board of Admi
sion. Below are given extracts fror
a letter from Dr. Butler that
show the results of his visit:

March G, 1912.
Principal John McGilvrey, Wester

Illinois State Normal School Acad

emy, Macomb, 111.

My Dear Principal McGilvrey: ■
am happy to tell you that the BoarJ
of Admissions of the Unhersity oil
Chicago at its regular meeting Sat-]
urday morning, March 2d, approved
of the addition of the name of youj
high school to the regular list of oi
co-operating high schools. Tl
name of your school would therefor
appear hereafter in the printed 1U
of the Annual Register of the Uni
versity, and you will very so
ceive a letter reciting in detail whj
is involved in co-operation, as well
a framed certificate of the relatioi
Sincerely your,

NATHANIEL BUTLER,
Director

A statement of the relations exis
ing between the University of CI
cago and co operating seconc
schools:

j. Any graduate of a secondai
school in co-operation with the Ui
versity of Chicago, presenting
the Office of Admissions at the Ui
versity one of the regular certificat
blanks filled and signed by the fac
ulty and the principal of the school
showing that the required amounS
and rescribed subjects of college pre-
paratory work have been done, wili
be accepted at the University on sucM
certificate and without entrance ex
amination. This certificate include
a specific statement that the studen
is recommended for admission
this University by the principal
superintendent.

2. The officers of a co-operatir.
school have the privilege of nomii
ating one member of each graduati
ing class for an honor scholarship at
the University of Chicago. This does
not mean that a scholarship will be
granted to each nominee, since the
number of available scholarships is
always less than the number of can-
didates offered.

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127

:;. Each co-operating school may

send to the annual oratorical contest
occurring at the University of Chi-
cago in November of each year, one
boy and one girl, from th<
class. The successful contestants are
awarded a scholarship for one year
in the University of Chicago.

4. Seniors in co-operating schoi Is
may in any Dumber enter competi-
tive honor examinations in certain
subjects, the successful contestants
being entitled to a scholarship in the
University for one year.

5. The principal, superintendent
and instructors in co-operating
schools are members of the annual
education conference which meets at
the University in November.

6. Members of the teaching staff
of co-operating schools may pursue
studies at the University of Chicago
in the summer quarter at one-half
the usual tuition rates.

In view of possible changes in the
administration of the school, the Uni-
versity reserves the right to revoke
the certificate of co-operation at anv
time upon due notice to the school.
NATHANIEL BUTLER,
Director of Co-Operating Work.

OLD NORMAL DEFEATED

(Continued from pag« 125)

ciative and supported Mr. Stephens
nobly. And here it may be said with
pride that their applause for Mr. Mess-
senger was equally vigorous.

It only remains now for the loyal
Norma'.ites to give Mr. Stephens their
best wishes and to cheer him on to
Kansas.

The following is the program:
Piano Duet- -Fanfare Bohm

Misses McFeeters and Brooking.
Vocal Solo— Springtide Criene

Miss Evelyn Wyne
Oration-America and Universal Peace

Mr. Ross Stephens, W.I. S.N S.
Oration- The Laborer and Society

Mr. Elon A. Messenger, I.S.N.U.
Vocal Solo— Blow, Blow, Thou

Winter Wind. Sargent

Mr. Paul Leach.

Miss Fanny Jackson, formerly ass-
istant librarian here, but now librarian
at Whitewater, Wisconsin, will visit
her friends here next week.

STILL SEEKING BETTER AD-
JUSTMENT

(Continued from page 125)

ning Avril 29th and ending July
Should v>, e do so, how many of
the above teachers do you think
could be induced to undertake this
twelve weeks' work? Such ar-
rangement would enable them to
do one-third of a year's work and re-
ceive credit therefor. This would
enable teachers looking forward to
graduation to do one year's work in
residence in three years, without los-
ing any time in teaching. A plan of
this kind has many advantages over
the short summer session for earnest,
ambitious teachers. The success of
this plan depends largely upon the
hearty co-operation of the county su-
perintendents.

I should like the above informa-
tion to include village and city as
well as country schools.

Thanking you for the help, I am,
Cordially yours,

QUARTERLY NUMBER THIR-
TEEN

About twenty-five hnndred copies
of Quarterly No. 13 will be ready for
distribution soon. At present the
Courier pressman is working on the
forms without interruption. The book
will contain about forty pages and is
printed on egg-shell paper with a cloth
of gold cover. Mechanically it will be
the best the Courier press has turned
out.

The subject of the Quarterly is
"Hebrew History arranged and adapt"
ed for the Third Grade" by Miss
Gladys Fishleigh, critic for the first
grade in this institution. Those who
have had the opportunity to see the
proof are sure that this work will be of
great value to teachers of third grade
history. Any who wish copies may
have them by applying at the office.

Judging from the few scattering
remarks the Coach has given us, the
"all-star" basket ball team, excluding
first team men of course, is as follows;
Warner Watson, center; Ralph Wilson
and William Spahr, forwards; Claud
Wilson and Bert Crandall, guards.

BASE BALL

To the delight of baseball enthu-
siasts, certain plans for ball equip-
ment are materializing. It is not
argued that "fine feathers make fine
birds," but all the same, one's self-
respect and one's standing abroad is
betti red by neat apparel and correct
tools for business. Among the para-
phernalia ordered of A. G. Spalding
& Bro. is a set of fifteen suits of
a gray color trimmed with the Nor-
mal purple and gold. The newest
design of catcher's mask is due here
sometime soon and the manual train-
ing shop is putting into shape equip-
ment in the way of a batter's cage,
home and pitcher's plates, etc. As
soon as the weather permits a back
stop will take form and the grounds
will be rolled and scraped into
shape. In the meantime the numer-
ous candidates are looking longingly
at each rising sun and contenting
themselves as best they can by
speeding up on the cinder track, try-
ing their "whips" wherever a dry
spot can be located, or dodging the
whizzing balls in the gymnasium.

The coach is asked to give some
expression of opinion of prospects.
The facts for a judgment, however,
are still under cover. Talk at this
time of season is very cheap and
many claim to see brilliant material
among the thirty odd aspirants for
first team positions. The first job
will be to run down a catcher for a
team pivot. Until that is done no
I redictions have worth. Among
those to be tried behind the batter
are Campbell, Jeffries, Huey and Bea-
corn. To face them in the pitchers'
box we may count on Catlin, Stevens,
Alexander, and Utley, with another
one or two as yet unmasked. We
will work on the principle that one
man cannot hold down the third
sack, and everywhere on the bases
endurance and steadiness will be giv-
en preference to brilliance and er-
ratic work. There is determination
to develop a fast out field of heavy
hitters. They ought to be found
among the stalwart youths of this
Normal. The squad appear to mean
business and there is no dearth of
raw material if some of the present
most promising players should prove
weak.

If the Statue of Liberty should fall,
could Russell E. Rector?

128

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FIELD MEET

The Fourth Annual Neighborhood
Field Meet will be held on the Normal
athletic field May 11, 1912. The
meet will begin promptly at 9:30 and
will continue throughout the day until
4:20. This day has grown more popular
every year and will no doubt be better
this year than ever before.

The meet is open to s 11 regular pu-
pils of the country schools, elementary
graded schools and high schools and
our own Academy, when properly certi-
fied by the principal of their respective
schools.

The forenoon will be devoted to track
and field events in which country and
graded schools may compete. The
afternoon will be given to four year
high schools.

A booklet containing the program,
rules of entry, etc. has been printed
and can be obtained upon application
to Prof. A. L. Walrath, Macomb.

Friday evening, March 29, from four
to five a reception was given by the
Juniors in the Music Room in honor of
the orator from the I.S.N.U., Mr.
Messenger, and our orator, Mr. Steph-
ens. Quite a large crowd of students
were there. Tea was served by the
Juniors and a short program was given,
consisting of a solo by Miss Shamel,
short speeches by the orators, Mr.
Messenger and Mr. Stephens, also by
Mr. Evans, instructor in Reading at
Old Normal, and Mr. McGilvrey. Mr.
Howard Thompson presided and the
reception closed with appropriate yells.

The Platonian Literary Society has
elected the following officers for this
quarter: Ralph Imes, president; Flo-
rence Logan, vice-president; Beatrice
Taylor, secretary; Mary Van Etten,
assistant secretary; Evelyn Wyne,
treasurer; Ernest McCall, serg»ant-at-
arms; Hope McGillivray, chorister.

HEAR THE LECTURE
TO-MORRO W NIGHT.

A school teacher instructed a pupil
to purchase a grammar. The next day
she received the following from the
child's mother:

"I do not desire for Lula shall en-
gage in grammar, as I prefer to engage
in yuseful studies and can learn her
how to spoke and write properly my-
self. I have went through two gram-
mars and I can't say they did me no
good. I prefer her ingage in german
and drawing and vocal music on the
piano." — Exchange.

Lives of great men all remind us
As we read the daily news,
That the papers try to show us
Candidates that we should choose.
N. B.

Mr. Morgan: What is a dynamo?
Miss B.— Some kind of a machine
that goes off suddenly.

Watch the "New Book" shelves in
the Reading Room. They continue to
be interesting.

You may think
This is poetry, but

It isn't.
The printer just

Set it up this way
To fool you.

THIS SPACE IS RE-
SPECTFULLY
DEDICATED TO THOSE
WHO FAILED TO
SUBSCRIBE FOR
THE COURIER.

'RUSSIA AND HER STRUGGLE

AGAINST AUTOCRACY"

TO-MORROW NIGHT.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., APRIL II, 1912.

NUMBER XXXIII

DEDICATION OF

THE NEW ORGAN

Authorized as a Memorial to

Alfred Bayliss by the Board of

Trustees.— Services Sunday,

April 28, at 3 O'clock.

S*^:5*>^:5:>S:SS33S5SS:5;2S£S39
"The children of the children we
teach, may teach the forbears of
those whose voices have been destin-
ed from the beginning of time to
swell the chorus of a song of deliv-
(rence, whose theme shall be far
more wonderful than that of the
ecng of Moses and Miriam, and the
ren and women of Israel." — Alfred
Payliss, from the address to the
Graduates of 1910.

Dedication service under the di-
rection of Miss Shamel.

Soloists:

Soprano Mrs. LeRoy Stocker

Violin Mr. LeRoy Stocker

At the organ. .Miss Clara Dunsworth
Nevin Quartet — Miss Helen Dallam,

Miss Dorothy Stinson, Miss Susan

B. Davis, Miss Shamel.

Fanner's Mass in B-Flat.

Soloists — Miss Louise Tunnicliff,
Miss Evelyn Wyne.

Double Quartet — Miss Ursula Ken-
nedy, Miss Hope McGillivray, Miss
Martha McLean, Miss Isabel Brook-
ing, Mr. Theron Chaney, Mr. DeWitt
Tobson, Mr. George Mapes, Mr. Paul
Leach.

Violins — Misses Dorothy Stinson,
Mary Vose, Freda Welborn, Marion
Ruddell, Messrs. Eli Smith, Russell
Rector, Edward McDonough.

Cello — Miss Susan B. Davis.

Piano — Mrs. George Kullmer.

Processional.

Invocation.

Lord's Prayer.

Gloria.

Presentation of the Organ — Trus-
tee John M. Keefer.

Acceptance of the Organ — Acting
Principal J. E. McGilvrey.

Organ.

Kyrie Farmer's Mass

Qui Tollis Farmer's Mass

Chorus.

REACHING OUT

The Domestic Science Depart-
ment Serves a Larger
Purpose.

Some time ago this paper gave an
account of extension work in Manual
Training. Since that time the Domes-
tic Science department has under-
taken a similar work.

Through the influence of Miss
Eula Cordell arrangements were
made for eighteen girls to tae Do-
mestic Science every Saturday morn-
ing. Last Saturday twelve girls im-
mediately accepted the invitation
and began active work.

Miss Colby took charge of the
c^ss but will give the young ladies
specializing in that line an opportu-
nity to do a part of the teaching.
Miss Alice Crabill, Miss Mary Van-
derburg, Miss Helen Brinck, and
Miss Evelyn Wyne will have charge
of the class at different times.

The interest shown by the girls is
commendable. This again proves that
the subject is practical and neces-
sary. Undoubtedly this small group
will influence a larger number and
may result eventually in the intro-
duction of this branch into the citj
schools.

The girls present last Saturday
from the Third ward were Cecil Dan-
ielson, Zelma Bourell, Kathryn Fuhr,
Pess Cox and LaMot f e Carter. From
the Fourth ward the following were
present: Gladys Hanan, Winnie Mil-
ler, Mabel Pope, Margaret Hanan,
Ruth Tutt, Beatrice Spangler, and
Bessie Carnahan.

Repentir Gounod

Mrs. LeRoy Stocker.

Credo Farmer's Mass

Et Incarnatus Farmer's Mass

Chorus.

Au Soir Nevin

Nevin Quartet.

Agnus Dei Farmer's Mass

Dona Nobis Farmer's Mass

Chorus.
Organ.

Gloria Farmer's Mass

Chorus.
Benediction.
Postlude — Organ.

AN ILLUSTRATED

LECTURE GIVEN

By Dr. Raymond of Knox College

on "Russia and the Struggle

against Autocracy".

Dr. Jerome H. Raymond delivered
an illustrated lecture in the audito-
rium last Friday evening on "Rus-
sia and the Struggle Against Autoc-
racy." The Oratorical Association
was responsible for bringing Dr.
Raymond here and those who held
season tickets were admitted free.

Dr. Raymond is especially capable
io deal with the subject he had
chosen. He has traveled in Russia
extensively and has in that way
gathered first-hand knowledge of
that little known but great country.
The slides he used were reproduced,
many of them, from photographs
taken by himself. Some were hand-
tinted and were in themselves a rare
treat.

Dr. Raymond opened his lecture
with a description of Russia from a
geographical standpoint. He told of
the rapidly increasing population,
the extent of the empire and its lim-
ited possibilities.

A brief summary of the history of
the country, with pictures of the for-
mer Czars, was given. Several slides
showing the miserable condition of
the peasants or servile class were
strong arguments against the power
of the absolute monarch. These
people live in the most abject pov-
erty, many being compelled to beg
for a living. The high taxes and
noor methods of farming serve to
keep this condition always present.

Perhaps the most interesting fea-
ture of the lecture was the d«scfin-
tion of the cities of Moscow and St.
Petersburg. Moscow, the capital of
the empire until the reign of Peter
the Great, is noted for its beautiful
and costly palaces and cathedrals.
Every ruler of Russia has endeavor-
ei to make a lasting monument to
his memory in the form of a church
cr palace. The result of this fever
has been the piling up of immense
wealth in these buildings to the

(Continued on page 131)

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EDITORIAL

If you are going to be a teacher
you must, by all means, read the ar-
t.cle in the last Outlook, "The Even-
ing at the Gate," by Max G. Schlapp.
If you are going to be a farmer, it is
just as important that you read it.
I.' you are interested in the welfare
of the race after you are gone, you
must read it. If you care for no
one but yourself, do not read it. You
might wake up.

Spring surely must he here. The
other morning we heard a drumming
sort of noise. Upon looking toward
the rear of the lot we saw a "nicker,"
or "yellow hammer," pecking away
at an old upturned porcelain kettle.
He certainly did make it jingle, too.
We watched him with much curiosi-
ty, noticing all the while that he
looked up into the air after each
spasm of drumming. Very soon
three members of the same bird fam-
ily joined him, and after a deal of
chirping and calling, they all depart-
ed, we suppose to begin work on a
neat summer bungalow in a hollow

AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE

(Continued from page 129)

great sorrow of the peasants and la-
boring classes. Gilded domes of the
Byzantine style of architecture rise
en every hand to meet the visitors'
gaze. The interior of these cathe-
crals present a gorgeous spectacle.
The floors are often of jasper; the
walks are quite often studded with
valuable gems, and gold is used ex-
tensively in decoration.

The city of St. Petersburg was

The Wkstern (

1 tei thi Greal to the
n 'i I h and west ol

attempted to build a monument that
would forever stand as a reminder of
his power. The site is poor in every
way, the land is marshy and the cli-
mate unbeautiful. In spite of all of
these drawbacks, St. Petersburg has
grown to be quite beautiful in it-
architecture, although it does not
equal Moscow.

Dr. Raymond spoke of the govern-
ment of the country also. At pres-
ent there is no truly representative
body with power to make laws
There is an Imperial Council, but the
I zar is under no obligation to accept
Ms advice. The policy of the gov-
ernment has been to put to death or
to exile any and all who came for-
ward with revolutionary ideas. The
Russian people have only two cours-
es to pursue; one is to bear the yoke
without a murmur or rise up and as-
sassinate the governmental authori-
ties. History shows that often the
latter policy has been followed.

Russia, however, is not without
her would-be reformers. A group of
sane and sacrificing people have or-
ganized under the name of Nihilists
and are gradually winning influential
men to their ranks.

The greatest man Russia has ever
produced was the late Count Leo Tol-
stoi. He was born wealthy, but fol-
lowing literally the command of
Christ to the rich man, sold most of
his property, all the state would al-
low him to sell, and gave to the poor.
He was a great writer on social prob-
lems and fought against autocracy
throughout his long life. One of his
late novels caused his excommunica-
tion from the Russian orthodox
church. This act did not quiet his
well doing, although it perhaps
weaened his great influence over the
common people.

The masterly manner with which
the speaker handled the subject, to-
gether with the beautiful slides,
made this lecture the most interest-
ing and instructive feature of the
year.

PERSONAL

Harold McKee and William Har-
ris, both of Lombard, are spending <>.
part of their Easter vacation around
the Normal building.

Mr. Ward Taylor of the University
of Illinois was here last week.

Mr. Royal Ritchie, also of the U. of
I., visited his Macomb friends.

was see:.

[for al

Miss J-. -
teaches in Monmouth,
Kiib friends daring the Easter va-
cation.

Fairfax Townley, '11, who

I rop Harbor, was compelled
t<- be absent two or throe weeks on
account of a violent attack of appen-
dicitis. He is now improving.

STAR GAZERS

Twenty-six student? and two fa-
culty members responded to Mr.
Drake's invitation to arise at three
o'clock Fiiday morning for the pur-'
pose of viewing Jupiter through the
telescope.

Weather conditions were quite fa-
vorable, and Jupiter, with four of
the eight moons, was made plainly
visible by the three-inch telescope.
The mcon — that is, the earth's moon
— was examined closely and pro-
nounced genuine. The craters were
quite evident, but some of the la-
dies present were disappointed in noti
seeing a man in the moon. The man
probably knew this, is leap-year on
the earth, and decided the wise thing
to do was to "lie low."

The planet Jupiter is the largest;
1r the solar system, being about thir-
' I larger than the

earth. It 13 483,300,000 miles from
the sun. Astronomers roll that it is
rot in a solid state. Its density is
1.23, just a little more dense than)
water, while the earth's density isi
5.23.

Galileo in 1G10, with the first tele-
scope, discovered the four largest
satelites of Jupiter, and later, by
complicated computations, the disr||
tance traveled by light was found tofl
be 186,000 miles per second.

Illustrated lectures are quite thej
popular thing now. Rev. Mr. SmitW
of the Universalist church was as-j
sisted by one of the Normal lanterns!
ir his lecture on the Passion Playl
Sunday evening. Smith and Switzeil
engineered the machine.

The other lantern aided Mist : i
Grote at the Presbyterian church ii
her lecture on Korea. Mr. Drakel
operated this one.

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ATHLETICS

TRACK WORK

Fifteen or twenty men are regis-
iietl tor track work but owing to
be Inclement weather very little
as been doue on the outside track.

'he time for training is \ery short,
at thos< interested are hoping for
ouie rapid development as soon as
lie weather permits.

The entire team is scheduled for
wo meets, one with Carthage col-
ege at Carthage and one with the
ialesburg high school at home. The
cademy team will have the privil-
ge of contesting for the cup in the
dgh school section of the neighbor-
ed meet. The inter-class meet
irill also be an event of much inter-
st.

The material this year for a good
irst team is in some ways an un-
;nown quantity. The distance runs
nay suffer from the lack of expe-
rienced hands, Sallee, the old war
torse being gone, but there are sev-
sral promising recruits, Willard
,Vatson, Glenn Hillyer, Claud Wil-
ion, Richard Malcomson, and others
leing ready for duty.

In the sprints Sorensen will serve
is a nucleus around which several
jpeedy men may be clustered. Glen
sickles, Paul Leach, and Clayton
Ihomson are promising runners.
Iklany have predicted from his spiel
■ the basket ball floor that Roscoe
Etost will be able to find a place
imong the sprinters.

For the shot and discus, DeWitt
Dobson, Ralph Wilson, Ralph Stickle,
Lloyd Card, and Alfred Sorensen,
ire looked upon as favorable materi-
il. In the jumps Salisbury and
rhompson are the only old hands
but probably Merrill Switzer will
claim a good place in the events.

The hurdles and pole vault seem to
be monopolized by Howard Thomp-
?on, Clayton Thomson, and George
Erwin. H. Thompson, who is divis-
ion captain of these events will at-
tempt to develop some new men.

Although the above summary is
largely theory, those responsible for
track activities will make a strong
effort to crystallize it into definite

BASE BALL

Hats off to Mr. White, boys. A
b3tting cage was needed for increas-
ing the livelihood of developing hit-
ters of the Ty Cobb type in the West-
ern Illinois Normal. And behold!

the manual training department

rolls up its sleeves and in less than
two Jei

ov( t the lot. The cage
I - ■■■ hi b
rr.ay readily be taken apart and the
wire rolled up. It will bo placed
near the tennis courts on the ath-
eld. Its purpose has been va-
riously estimated about the campus,
some expressing their belief that
poor batters were to be confined
therein. Others felt certain that the
coach would retain weak batters for
a worse fate, but declared their
knowledge of the new structure by
arguing that it was for shelter in
case of rain or severe sun.

At any rate this is another re-
minder of the advantages of this
school — print shop, manual training
shop, music room and equipment,
society halls, public speaking and
dramatic department, domestic sci-
ence apparatus, all generous and
quick to enter into any worthy stu-
dent project. In counting your bless-
ings, Normal students, don't forget
this one.

HONORS AWARDED

Last Thursday morning at the
chapel hour the official "W" was
presented to those who had earned
them in both football and basket-
ball. Henry Black, last year's foot-
ball manager, introduced each mem-
ber of the team with a few words,
e- ill iBmg the characteristics of the
individual. Mr. McGilvrey presented
the letters and at the same time read
the record of each one for last
term. It was gratifying to learn that
a very large number of "A's" were
earned by team members. There
were quite a number of "B's" and a
very few "C's." This record certain-
ly shows that athletics can be con-
ducted in such a manner as not to
interfere in the least with school
work.

Those who received "W's" in foot-
ball are Wayne Wetzel, Dewitt Dob-
son7 Simon Sionson, Lloyd Smith,
Henry Black, Grant Huey, Ross
Stephens, Alfred Sorensen, Ralph
Stickle, Lewis Gill, Ralph Wilson.
Those receiving honors in basketball
are Ralph Imes, George Salisbury,
Alfred Sorensen, and Jerry Bennett.

If a calf wore a bear skin would a
cow hide? — Ex.

EXTRACT FROM DIARY
ENTRY, APRIL 4.
The fourth grade challenged the
grade to a game of b iseba 11
yesterday. The game started at no o
with a few seventh and eighth grade
boys on each side, because neither
grade had enough good players to
make a team. The fourth grade
went ahead and stayed there. The
fifth grade team was at the bat and
Harry Avery was up. Bill Russell,
pitcher of the fifth's team, was sit-
ting not very far from the left side
of the plate. Along came a ball
right over the plate. Whack! Out
went the ball into the field, but the
bat broke square off and flew back
and hit Bill right on the upper lip
with the broken end. He was soon
taken to the building and with the
assistance of Mr. White and Miss
Lamkin, was cared for and then sent
to Dr. Russell. It was found that
his lip was badly cut and a few
front teeth knocked loose.

EDWIN HARRIS, Grade Six.

A new model drinking fountain
has been installed on the second
floor. It is so constructed that it
will be impossible for anyone to
leave the water running after drink-
ing. "Shorty" says it will pay for
itself in a few weeks.

"Stephens won at Emporia.
Toesn't that sound all right?

Kind readers, we are giving
you something to say about
the Courier this week. Take
your pencils and in the blank
space draw all manner of
Spring cartoons and write all
manner of stinging editorials
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OLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., MAY 2, 19 1 2.

NUMBER XXXVI

A JOINT DEBATE.

iROl'P OF STRONG ORATIONS
TO BE GIVEN AT EMPORIA

oples of Orations to Be Clven at the Inter-

Oratorical Contest Are Now in

the Library.

Copies of the various orations to be
elivered at the Seventeenth Annual
Contest of the Inter-State League of
state Normal Schools to be held at
i!mporia, Kansas, on May 3, have
ieen received at this school and
•laced in the library. A short re-
ume of the topics of discussion may
lot be amiss at this time.

Earl W. Shinn, representing Kansas
n\\ deliver the first speech on "The
Jncrowned Hero." He treats of Ed-
nund G. Ross, a member of Congress
rom Kansas at the time of the at-
empted impeachment of President
Johnson. Ross voted against the im-
>eachment contrary to the wishes of
he Kansas electorate, and was forced
,o live in political exile. He has been
ecognized by present Kansas to have
seen in the right. The style is both
! ree and emotional.

The third speaker is Carl I. Erick-
son of Cedar Falls, Iowa, whose sub-
ject is "The American Crime". In
treating of the criminal policy of mob
lynching, he points out that not only
the southern states, c - t many of our

GALESBURG HIGH SCHOOL

DEFEATED IN TRACK MEET

The Normal Track Team Wins the Meet by a

Score of Sixty-Nine and a Half to

Fifty-Five and a Half.

(Continued on page 143.)

The track team from Galesburg
High School was defeated by the Nor-
mal team by the score of 69 V2 to
5 5%. Some good records were
made by members of both teams.
Considering the fact that the stu-
dents in this school should average
two years older than the students of.
a high school, the Galesburg team
did well indeed. The distance run-
ner, Temple, was the star of the vis-
iting team. Erickson, Wright and
Jordan also showed up well.

Sorensen of the Normal received
three firsts and a second. R. Wilson
was next with two firsts and a sec-
ond. C. Thomson ran a sensational
hurdle race, winning over his oppo
nents by a good lead. Wilson did
^ ell in the 440, and Dobson acquit-
ted himself with honor in the shot-
put. Salisbury captured a first in
the standing broad jump.

The results of the meet follow:

100-yard dash — Sorensen, N, first;
Erickson, G, second; Jordan, G,
third. Time, 11 flat.

50-yard dash — Sorensen, N, first;
Jordan, G, second; Erickson, G,
third. Time, 5 4-5.

Discus throw — Wilson, N, first;
Sorensen, N, second; Franklin, G,
third. Distance, 9 7 ft. 2 in.

(Continued on page 143.)

BASE BALL BOYS WIN

TWO MORE VICiORIES

The Boys Defeat the Team from Canton, Mo.

by a Score of 5-1 while Hedding Loses

to the Tune of 5-3.

Revenge is sweet. So was the vic-
tory which the Normal boys gained
over the team from Christian Univer-
sity of Canton, Mo., last Friday. The
score of 5 to 1 tells the tale, but the
fact that the visitors only got three
scattered hits off Stephens tells it
better. He was in regular mid-sea-
son form and had the Canton boys
guessing all the time. He made sev-
en men whiff at the plate, which is
equal to saying that "a bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush."

We must not overlook the other
wheels in the machine that accom-
p'ished the feat. Every man wan
there to play ball, and every man did
play ball. In the batting line, tbey
poled five hits off Alderton, the big
twirler for Canton, which brought in
as many runs. The most damage
was done in our half of the first in-
ring, when four Normal men crossel
the plate. Another run was put over
later in the game. Our boys had
three errors chalked up to them, one
Of which was directlj responsible for
the lone tally made by the Missouri-
ins. A strong wind from the south
west was blowing, which handicap-
ped both teams to some extent. Sev-
eral foul balls would have been two-
base hits if it had not been for the
wind.

The line-up follows:

Normal. Christian.

Wetzel lb E. Lloyd

Erwin 2b Delaney

Huey 3b Hetzler

Terrill ss Bear

Jeffries c Bradshaw

Black If Bloom

Walters, Allely. . .cf J. Lloyd

Thomas, Walters.. rf Roberls

Stephens p Alderton

Normal 40010000 * — 5

Christian U 00001000 — x

Stolen bases — Bloom, Huey, Ter-
rill. Sacrifice hits— Jeffries. Two-
tase hits — Terrill, Huey, Delaney.

(Continued on page 143.)

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ARE WE OVERDOING THE

SEQUEL?

The editor has requested me to
write a brief article on some topic
closely connected with school life, and
I have chosen the above.

As I see the seniors working on the
Sequel, it seems to me that it has
grown to be a hinderance to good work
in the Senior year instead of a help.
Each class has set up as its motto "a
better and more expensive Sequal
than any former class has been able
to produce." Year by year the amount
of labor and money expended has in-
creased until the burden has passed
a'l reasonable bounds.
Is the Sequel important enough to take
more time than any other one school
activity and even more than any one
subject in the course? Is its value mea-
sured by its bulk and by its cost in dol-
lars? Is it good business policy to print
a book costing from two to three dollars
a copy and sell it for one dollar? These
are some of the questions the next and
succeeding classes should consider.

Up until this year one senior play
was enough. This year we are to have
two and perhaps more. The reason
is the Sequel must have the money.
A more expensive book has been plan-
ned than there is money to pay for,
consequently more money must be
raised in some way.

Isn't it time to apply common busi-
ness sense and plan expenditures on
the Sequel so as to keep within the
known resources, rather than plan an

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expensive book and then strain to raise
the money? No one can run his own
private affairs successfully on the prin-
ciples followed by the Sequel staff. No
one knows that better than the staff
itself, but it says it is bound by preced-
ent. It reminds one of the rivalry
among nations in building war
vessels. It is not what is needed,
but what the other fellow has done
that determints what we are to do.
We see the same foolish competition
and extravagance in the race to keep
up appearances in private life.

I suggest something better for an-
other year. A book costing well with-
in the fund available. Less expense
for mere paper and binding. Fewer
pages if need be. And the material
inside as good as it can be made.
Let us spend our energies on getting
material worth while for the inside
and far less in extra efforts to dress
our creation in extravagant form. It
is the inside that counts and that is
the part whrch is least expensive In
this way we can have a good Sequel
and also have more time for the other
things which the Senior year affords.
— 0. M. Dickerson

No school tomorrow. If we were
"kids" we would say "goody" but since
we are not kids we will say "goody"
anyhow. We don't want a holiday but
we do want to hear and see that Mili-
tary Tract High School Meet. The in-
tellectual contest in the forenoon will
be well worth attending and the track
events in the afternoon will be even a
little more inviting, Many of the men
and boys of the school will be engaged
as officers and clerks of the meet.

Several back numbers of the Gales-
burg High School Budget came to the
office yesterday accompanied by the
very signficant phrase " Please don't
think that we have forgotten you. The
circulation manager lost the book with
addresses of the exchanges." We will
forgive the circulation manager.

Nothing like baseball to get all the
students interested in a common cause.

THE m ;

The organ being placed in the aud-
itorium in memory of cur late Pt
pal, Alfred Bayliss, is constructed by
M. P. Moller, of Hagarstown, Md.,
and is numbered Opus L54. It is
being located on the east side of the
stage above the air pipe, and the ex-
tended console is on the floor of the
auditorium. The organ has a pneu-
matic action, and an electric blower
supplies the wind. There are 931
pipes.

The console consists of two manuals
and pedal-keyboard, swell and cres-
cendo pedals, and the following stops:
Flute, Violino, Oboe Bassoon, Tremu-
lant, Bourdon, Stopped Diapason, Open
Diapason, Salicional, Aeoline, Pedal
Flute, Pedal Bourdon, Lieblich Ge-
dacht, Flute D'Amour, Principal, Dul-
ciana, Melcdia, with adjustable com-
bination stops. The rwell box has
seventy-three notes instead of the
usual sixty-one.

INTER-SOCIETY DEBATE

The Inter-Society debate was held
Tuesday evening after Y. W. C. A. in
Society Hall. The question was: Re-
solved: That the decision of state
judges should be subject to the recall
of the people. Mr. Hov/ard Thompson,
Miss Florence Logan and Mr. Ralph
Imes upheld the affirmative for the
Platonians. Mr. Lester Allely, Miss
Lora Wilson and Mr. Charles Riley
supported the negative in favor of the
Emersonians. The debate was inter-
esting and spirited throughout. The
judges decided in favor of the affirm-
ative. This gives the Platonians one
and one half points toward winning
the cup this spring.

Last night when the Eli pulled out
at 11:16 it bore a precious burden.
Miss Davis, Mr. Ross Stephens and
Mr. Howard Thompson were borne
away to sunny Kansas fot the Orator-
ical Contest,

All they asked of us was to think real
hard and pray silently for Stephens.

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ding its three runs. In addition to
that he struck out twelve men.

Peterson, the Hedding pitcher,
yielded four hits, which, with good
base-running and errors on Hea-
ding's side, gave us five runs.

Our boys did not play as good a
defensive game as they did Friday.
The fact that it made the second
game for them in two successive days
accounts for this. This makes the
fourth game of the season, and not a
one has been lost. The support has
been growing better and promises to
continue so.

The next game is with St. Albans
Military Academy of Knoxville on the
home grounds next Saturday, May 4.

The line-up in the Hedding game
follows:

Hedding. Normal.

Cannon lb. Wetzel

Cady 2b Imes, Erwin

Nelson 3 b Huey

Baird ss Terrill

Coleman c Campbell

Jeffries

Rowley If Black

Gimson cf Allely

braucht rf Walters

Peterson p Catlin

Hedding 00110001 0—3

Normal 00010310 * — o

First base on balls— off Peterson
1, off Catlin 2. Left on bases — Nor-
mal 10, Hedding 10. First base on
errors — Normal 5, Hedding 2. Struck
out — by Catlin 12, by Peterson 4.
Fassed balls — Campbell 4, Jeffries 1.
Coleman 1. Hit by pitcher — Black 2,
Braucht, Baird.

A letter to Miss Lora Wilson con-
veys some interesting facts.

"I am very elated tonight so will
have to tell you my good news. I have
been reemployed at a raise of ten
dollars thus making my salary seventy
for next year. I am going to teach
Domestic Science. A four hundred
dollar equipment is to be installed in
the schoel which, I think, will be very
nice.

I don't know that I will go to Nor-
mal, but either to the Peoria Polytech
nic School or to the University of Ill-
inois. Teaching school is fine, but it
sure is not a snap. * * * "
— Garnet Payne
Class of, '11.

GROUP OF STRONG ORATIONS

(Continued from page 141.)

northern states as well, are victims of
this cruelty to the negro. The state
governor who permits such lawlessness
is unfit for office. The task before the
executives and the people is to permit
no such atrocity as this "American
Crime", for which we are made the
object of foreign criticism. The appeal
of this oration is strong and well worded.
The fourth state appearing on the
program is Wisconsin, represented by
Howard M. Jones of LaCrosse, speak-
ing "The Spirit of the Progressive
Movement." This subject involves a
wide difference of opinion among our
present day politicians. The nature of
insurgency as constituting reform of
any kind is presented clearly . TSe pro-
gressive insurgent is not one who wishes
to overthrow an institution for the mere
act; but rather one who sees clearly
the need of reform and the remedy for
the evil. The Progressives are finding
followers in all the walks of life. Wis-
consin should feel well represented by
such an insturctive discussion and plea.
The fifth and last speaker is Rush
H Limbaugh of Cape Girardeau, Miss-
ouri, who will speak of "Political Ideals
and Industrial Progress." The strug-
gle between capital and labor has dis-
torted our ideals and conditions from
the free and just idea's of Lincoln.
The change has been complete. Now
the capitalist can dictate the price of
the poor man's food, and the politician
betray his people equally as cruelly.
The appalling conditions of the country
demand a retrievement. This is be-
ing expressed by the coming of reform
in favor of popular government.

All these orations show, besides the
necessary careful and thorough study
of the subject matter treated, an al-
most perfect presentation of the oritor-
ical English sentence structure; and,
if delivered by competent speakers, as
we trust they will be, will be well worth
the efforts put upon them.

Of the second speaker nothing need
be said here, as your judgment has al-
ready been passed upon the efficiency
of "America and Universal Psace"
and its author.

DEFEATED IN TRACK MEET

(Continued from page 141.)

Mile run — Temple, G, first; W. it-
s' n, N, second; Crawford, N, third.
Time, 4:57 2-5.

220-yard hurdles — Thomson, N,
first; Wright, G, second; Franklin,
G, third. Time, 30 2-5 seconds.

4 4 0-yard dash — Wilson, N, first;
Scott, G, second; Watson, N, and
Shultz, G, tied for third. Time, b7
2-5 sec.

Half-mile — Temple,
Stickle, N, second; Scott,
T ! me, 2 min. 18 2-5 aec.

High jump — Phillips,
Minteer, N, and Thiel, G, tied for
second.. Height, 5 ft. 3 in.

220-yard dash — Sorensen, N, first;
Sickles, N, second; Hamblin, G, third.
Time, 2 5 sec. flat.

Running broad jump — Erickson,
G, first; Jordan, G, second; Thomp-
son, N, third. Distance, 19 ft. 1 y 2

first;
third.

fi rst ;

Shot-put — Dobson, N, first; Wil-
son, N, second; Jordan, G, third. Dis-
tance, 39 ft. 4% in.

Standing broad jump — Salisbury,
N first; Thiele, G, second; Stickle, N,
third. Distance, 9 ft. 2% in.

Pole vault — Wright, G, first; Cor-
dell, N, second; Thompson, N, third.
Height, 9 ft. 3 in.

Half-mile relay — Normal, first;
Galesburg, second. Time, 1 min. 42
sec.

TWO MOR E VICTORI ES

(Continued from page 141.)

Eouble plays — Bear to Lloyd. Bases
on balls — off Stephens 2, off Alderton
4. Struck out — by Stephens 7, by Al-
derton 3. Passed balls — Bradshaw,
Jeffries 2. Umpires, Taylor and
James.

Hedtling vs. Normal.

Normal took the second game in
two days as easily as the first. The
unlucky team that cast their lot with
the home team was from Hedding
College of Abingdon. After the track
meet with Galesburg High School,
the locals lined up with Catlin in the
box and Campbell behind the hat.
The rest of the line-up was practical-
ly the same as the day before. Cat-
lin not only pitched a good game, but
a very good game. He only allowed
the visitors five hits, which, with a
lew errors on our side, gave Hed-

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Tuf Wf.stf.rn Courif.r

AN INTERESTING CONTEST

The Interscholastic Oratorical Con
test of the University of Illinois for
Pistrict No. 4 was held In the audi-
torium last Friday evening. Prof. E.
C. Baldwin of the University presid-
i'd, and at the beginning of the pro-
gram explained the purpose of the
contest. Those who won in the two
divisions are to represent this dis-
trict at the University in May.

A new plan is being tried this
year. The University authorities are
in doubt as to the real value of mem-
orized orations, believing that think-
ing on one's feet, so to speak, is bet-
ter training in the art of public
sr^aking. So this year a contest in
extempore speaking forms a part of
the work. The contestants draw lots
from a set of twenty-five or more
Questions one hour before the time
of speaking.

David Shoutze, representing the
O.i'incy High School, was the first
speaker, and his subject was "The
State Fair." His thought was well
framed and his delivery was good.
The judges awarded him first place.

Earl Smith of Clayton drew the
subject, "High School Plays," and
dealt with it skillfully. He was
swarded second place. Henry E.
Eralle of Camp Point spoke on "Fish-
irg." He discussed the fishing in-
dustry in a general way, but showed
seme knowledge of his subject. The
last speaker was Miss Ruth Von
Krumreig of Vermont, who spoke on
"The Standing Army."

The second division was the contest
in memorized orations. Bruce Brady
of Monmouth High School delivered
un oration with "The American Ideal
as its subject. The life and services
of Abraham Lincoln was the subject
of the speech. Emry S. Simmonds of
C?mp Point spoke on the famous ora-
tions of the world, and his oration
had for its title, "True Eloquence."
John Midkiff of Biggsville, with
"The Oration of the Revolution,"
made a good impression on his hear-
ers. Patrick Henry and his service
to the Colonies formed the basis for
his discourse.

Everett Miller of Clayton spoke on
' The World's Master Patriot." The
revolution in China was motive for
the speaker, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen was
the "Master Patriot."

Carl Larson of Knoxville had, per-
haps, as strong an oration as any of
the contestants. His subject was
"Aliens or Americans."

The only girl in this part of the
contest was Dorothy Edwards of Tal-
lula. Her oration was "A Nineteenth
Century Heroine." Clara Barton and
h( j r service to the world through the
Red Cross Society was the theme fol-
lowed by Miss Edwards. An inter-
esting speech on the Indian was giv-
en by Obert Beatty of Quincy. His
oration was entitled "The First Am-
erican."

The judges tied in their choice for
first place. John Midkiff and Bruce
Brady were given equal markings.

Three music numbers were given
during the program. Miss Shamel,
Miss Dunsworth, Mrs. Hursh and
Mrs. Johnson gave a double piano
number; Miss Brooking and Miss
Dunsworth played a piano duet, and
two selections were given by a dou-
ble trio composed of Miss Shamel,
Miss Wyne, Miss McGillivray, Miss
Cordell, Miss McLean, anl Mis3
Brooking.

NEIGHBORHOOD MEET

Come and bring your friends and
school to the Neighborhood Meet on
Saturday, May 1 1th. Country schools,
graded schools and high schools com-
pete in their age groups. Make this a
field and festival day. Bring your din-
ners and enjoy the ravine at noon.

The social side of this Neighborhood
Meet is worth considering even tho
you have no one to enter the events.
But I am sure that if you have taken
advantage of the good days, the road
in front of the school-house for running,
and the level place in the yard for
jumping, you have some who can very
creditably compete with other schools.

This is your day - Come!

Send all entries to Mr. A. L.
Walrath.

If you were at the games last Fri
c'ay and Saturday, and you should
have been, you undoubtedly noticed
the appearance of the team in new
suits. But that was a very little
thing compared to the way In which
the boys acquitted themselves on the
diamond. They played the game •?!!
the way through, and well deserved
the support which was given them.
However, there is still room for im-
trovement in the line of attendance
at the games, and a spirit should be
created, as is customary at gridiron
tattles.

One of the Seniors was calle
the Third Ward of this city to teach a
few classes Monday during the ab-
sence of the regular teacher.

Miss Pearle Davis, Academic
graduate, returned fcr a short visit
with her school day friends.

Three athletic victories in two days.
Getting even with "fate" for the bad
deal he gave us in basketball.

Student (at the drug store) —
"Have you any invisible hair pins?"
Clerk— "Yes."
Student — "May I see some?"

He stood on the bridge at twilight,
As the game drew near to its
close;
'Twas a pensive mood in which he
stood,
On the bridge of the halfback's
nose.

— Ex.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., MAY 16, 1912.

NUMBER XXXVIII

OUR OWN FIELD DAY AND

THE FLOWER PAGEANT

The Forenoon Given Up to a Beautiful Flower

Pageant, while In the Afternoon Will

Take Place Inter-Class Athletics.

1. The Grand Processional —

Sweet peas, poppies and butter-
flies — Kindergartners, Is and
2 s.

Violets and Johnny Jump-ups,
3s and 4s.

Black-eyed Susans, 5 and 6 girls

Rose Maidens, 9s, 10s, lis, 12s,
and Country School Girls.

Wisteria Blossoms, Advanced
Academic Girls.

Red Clover (class flower), Jun-
ior Girls.

Dark-red Peonies (class flower),
Seniors.

Assisted by

The Knights, 5 and 6 boys.

The Second Patrol Boy Scouts,
7 and 8 boys.

The First Patrol Girl Scouts, 7
and 8 girls.

2. Sweet Pea Song and March—

The pesy bed,
Sleeping poppies,
Butterflies.
Games: Lovely Loo, Flower Race
— Kindergarten, Is and 2s.

3. Violet Pennant Drill.
Pennant Race.

Folk Games: Reap the Flax; Jol-
ly is the Miller.
Game: Net Ball — 3s and 4s.

4. Free-hand Exercises.

An Old English Drill with Swords
— 5s and 6s.

5. Military Marching.

Free-hand Series — 7 and 8 girls.

Girl Scouts' Dance.

First Aid Demonstration — Boy

Scouts.
Panic Game Volley Ball.

6. Indian Club Swinging.

Folk Dance: The Crested Hen.

Classic Dance: The Heart of the
Rose — 9s, 10s, lis, 12s, Coun-
try School and Junior Girls.

7. Dumb-bell Drill.

Folk Dance: "Sally Seeker"
(Moorish 'dance with ker-
chiefs) — Junior Girls.

8. Indian-club Swinging.

(Continued on page 150.)

FACULTY GIVES A BANQUET
TO M. AND MRS. M'GILVREY

The Dining Room Is a Bower of Flowers.

Mr. Hursh Acts as Toastmaster.— A

Delightful Program Given.

Thursday evening, May ninth, at
eight o'clock, there was given by the
faculty, in the Domestic Science room
a farewell banquet to Mr. and Mrs.
McGilvrey. It is seldom that every-
thing unites to make an occasion so
enjoyable as this proved to be. The
one cloud was the realization that we
are soon to lose our principal and his
wife from the school.

The dinning room, decorated for
the evening was a bower of flowers.
A feature of the decorations were
large baskets of violets, tied with gold
tulle, making the school colors, purple
and gold.

The following menu was served:

Fruit Cocktail
Roast Chicken Mashed Potato
French Peas
Olives Pickled Peaches

Grapejuice Ice
Hot Rolls
Tomato Salad Wafers

Bavarian Cream Cake

Crackers Cheese

Coffee Mints

Salted Almonds
Mr. Hursh as toastmaster, first in-
troduced Mr. Johnson, who spoke on
"The Work of the Teacher." Mr.
Keefer responding to a toast on "The
Campus", presented in a most interest
ing way some of the history and asso-
ciations of our own campus. Miss
Prentice, in speaking of "White
Magic" emphasized especially the
value of friendship. Mr. Morgan
spoke on "First Impressions" and Mr.
McGilvrey on "Lasting Impressions",
showing his intimate knowlege of the
school and the faculty and his deep
interest in both. Captain Eads spoke

THE SENIOR CLASS HAS AN-
OTHER TRIAL AT DRAMATICS

Dickens' "Cricket on the Hearth" Is Delight'

fully Given by the Dramatic Talent

of the Class.

(Continued on page 151.)

Again the seniors have distinguish-
ed themselves in the dramatic line by
giving a very pleasing interpretation of
Dickens' charming little English story
The Cricket on the Hearth. The open-
ing scene had the cozy home-like at-
mosphere which Dickens enjoyed paint-
ing and the happy little housewife, the
cheery fire and the exceedingly
well behaved baby with its devoted
nursemaid, emphasized the keynote
of the play very fittingly.

Miss Lenore Stephens as "Dot',
was thoroughly in sympathy with her
part and gave her lines in a most nat-
ural and charming manner. If ever
there was a faithful nurse, Tillie Slow-
boy certainly deserves the prize and
from the opening scene where the
baby was being entertained in a m st
enthusiastic, if somewhat unscientific
manner, to the long drawn wails of the
last scene, the audience thoroughly
enjoyed Tillie's vagaries, Miss Bro-
kaw certainly gave a very clever in-
terpretation of this character part.

Mr. Salisbury was very much at
home as John Perrybingle both in the
cheerful first and second chirps and
in the pathetic scene at the last where
he conquers his jealous anger and de-
clares his faith in Mary.

Mr. George Rausch as Tackleton
was excellent both in make-up and ex-
pression and afforded a strong contrast
to the cheerfulness and good will of the
of the other characters. Like most
of Dickens' villains he meets with a
sudden reformation at the end, almost
as complete as that of old Scrooge,
but we cannot be surprised at this
change in gruff old Tackleton wher. he
has been brought into contact with the
radiant cheerfulness and sweet sym-

(Continued on page 151.)

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OF INTEREST TO FARMER
BOYS

The Chicago dailies for Saturday,
May 11, tell of a plan by wilch the
agricultural interests of this country
are to receive a genuine boost. At-
tention is colled to the matter be-
cause many of the boys of this school
come from the farm and any move-
ment looking toward better farming
is of vital interest to them.

Julius Rosenwald, for Sears, Roe-
buck & Co., made a donation of
$100,000 to be used in 100 different
counties for the improvement of ag-
ricultural conditions throughout the
west and middle west. By using tliis
money to advantage those who are
at the head of the movement are as-
sured of $1,000,000 to be used in
1,000 counties.

This problem has been studied by
tV>e Council of Grain Exchang?s and
it is through their efforts that the
gift is obtained. Of course it is to
the best interests of the exchanges
to aid farmers in big crop produc-
tion.

The plan put forth is to send an
exepert into certain counties to ob-
serve and study locsl conditions and
make investigations regarding the
existing conditions. He will then
come in personal touch with the
most influential farmers and suggest
to them scientific means of improv-
ing their farms. The farming, com-
mercial and transportation interests
will be united into a society for the
etudy and improvement of rural con-
ditions.

Those at the head of the plan say
that $1,000 per county is not enough
to carry on the work to the best ad-
vantage for a year. The Council

The Wi:stf.rn Courjkr

ho es to te'eive gifts to the extent
that a $2,f»00 per year expert can be
se::t t- the counties sele te'. Oily
graduates of a?ri< u'tural schools will
be emploed for this work.

This plan should te encour gng
to the farrrer boy. He ab^ve all
others has the practical first-hand
experience. By studying agriculture
from the s icnti c standpoint he can
easily avail himself of a position as
one of the?e county experts. His
field of work wi'l be enlarged, even
if he never cares for such a position.
If this plan is carried out completely,
where is the farmer who will not
wish he had some scientific knowl-
edge of agriculture so that he could
take the advice and assistance a
county expert would be able to give?

It might even pay a young man
to spend three or four years at the
Normal School, spring terms and all,
preparing himself to meet the ap-
proaching change.

THE JUNIOR CLASS GIVES A
RECEPTION

The Junior class gave a farewell re-
ception to Mr. and Mrs. McGilvrey
last Tuesday night from 8:00 o'clock
to 10:00. Refreshments consisting of
Bavarian cream, wafers, and cocoa
were served in the Domestic Science
dining room. Miss Haffner and Miss
Cordell played piano solos, Misses
Seeker and Durie a piano duet, Miss
Belle Adams gave a reading. Miss
McGillivray a vocal solo and Miss
Hamilton a story. Mr. Thompson,
president of the class of '13,
spoke of the inspiration the class had
received from Mr. Mc Gilvrey and he
then responded with a few well chosen
remarks fitting to the occasion.

The new terms work started May 5,
has attracted twenty-one up to date. The
majority of these are registered for the
Country School Course which includes
Arithmetic, Grammar, History, Geo-
graphy, and observation in the training
school.

A few are taking the regular Nor-
mal course and others the High
School Course.

THE NEW STUDENTS

Inez Aulgur, Littleton, III.
Rosa Belle Bunch,Carro!lton,Ill.
Sylvia Carmack, Colchester, 111.
Vera Catlin, Roseville, 111.
Stella Cratty, Galesburg, 111.
Pearl Edie, Macomb 111.
Lena Mae Fagan, Cooperstown, 111.
Augusta Greuel, Macomb, 111.
Tacie Hall, Macomb, 111.
Eva Hasselbacher, Yates City, 111.
Zola G. Huff, Sciota, 111.
Gertrude Knight, New Philadelphia,
!.

Mayme Mc Keown, Mt. Sterling.IlL
Ethel A. Mc Kie, Oneida, 111.
Guy H. Miller, Camden, 111.
Ross Nichol, Hadley, 111.
Emery Reed, Macomb, 111.
Allie May Spangler, Bardolph, 111.
Gaily Faye Spangler, Bardolph, 111.
Maud Volk, Oneida, 111.
Homer L. Wherley, Astoria, 111.
Margaret Ellen Wilson, Havana, 111.

A BAD PENNY RETURNS—

so dees a hat. The highly prized derby
hat mentioned in the Courier last week
has returned via. the Adams Express
Company. Evidently the man who
wore it off is strictly honest. Mr.
Thompson wishes the readers to know,
however, that this hat was not bought
especially for the Emporia trip but on
general principles.

OWN FIELD DAY

(Continued from page 149.)

Wand Exercises.

Classic Dance: "Sylphette" — Ad-
vanced Academy Girls.

9. Ceremony of Knighting — 5 and 6
boys.

10. Playground Races — Boys.
Somersault Race — 3d boys.
Farmers' Field Pace — 4th bo:>B.
Slow Pony Race — 5, 6, 7, 8 boys.
Chicken Race — 3 and 4 girls.
Tandem Race — 5, 6, 7, 8, girls.
Senior Garland Dance at the

Maypole, assisted by the Jun-
iors, Academics and Country
School.

1 1

12.

Crowning of the Flower Queen.
(Flower Queen, Miss Finlay.)

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151

A SUMMARY

While the students are discussing
side lines, a summary of the work
for the Oratorical Association may
throw some light on the matter. The
number of people who gained some
knowledge of oration, declamation,
essay, debate, and music, is larger
than would be supposed at first
glance.

In the ninth grade the largest
number has been at work. In de-
clamation the following students
took part: Nina Walters, Ruth
Cannon, Miriam Null, Verna Hotel-
ing, Esther Fuhr, Nellie Morrow,
Wade Adams, John Kennett, Ira
Burnham, Lyman Vose, and Jay
Edie. In essay the following ninth
graders contested: Ruby Mullen,
Irene Harris, Hazel Monnirger, and
Mitchell Lefler. In debate, Myr-
rhene Newsome, Harvey Sanderson,
Harry Heffner, and Fred Robertson
were the representatives from the
ninth grade.

The tenth grade people had four
members in the declamation con-
test. They were Verla Coleman, Bes-
sie Miner, Hunter Rodgers, and
Grace Wilson. In vocal music
Leona Culp was the representative
of that class. The essayists from
the tenth grade were Mamie Thomp-
son, and Marie Foulds. Their debat-
ers were Wade Watson and Kath-
ryn Callihan.

The eleventh grade members who
gave declamations were Bernice
Lovely, Helen Miner, Mae Windisch,
Ethel Lucas, Hazel Wrigley, Claude
Wilson. The debaters from the
eleventh grade were Ono Walters
and Theron Chaney.

The twelfth grade was not so
prominent in numbers but were
strong in quality. Sarah Stocking
was the only person in the declama-
tory contest. Lester Allely and
Owen Pratt represented the class in
debate.

The country school class showed
up exceptionally well. Ernest Hamm,
Nannie Allison, Marie Murphy, Nina
Spicer, and Jessie Wright gave de-
clamations.

The junior class produced some
good readers. Lela Terrill, Mary
VanEtten, Nell Brinton, Frances
Reeder, Anna Seeker, and Lora Wil-
son, participated. Hope McGilli-
vray represented the class in vocal
music, and Grace Cordell in piano
music.

BATTING AVERAGE OF THE TEAM TO DATE

Player

A. B.

Percent

Walters

.450

Terrill

.421

lines

.333

Erwin

.300

Allely

.300

Jeffries

.222

Huey

.210

Black

.208

Alexander

.200

Wetzel

.190

Stephens

.166

Catlin

.111

Campbell

.000

ANOTHER

TRIAL AT

DRAMATICS

(Continued from page 149)

pathy of Mary and Bertha.

Caleb Plummer is always a favor-
ite with readers and audiences and
Mr. Hoyt's rendering of the patt was
no exception to this rule. The humor
was well given and the lifting of the
character from the farcical side to the
serious was done with considerable skill
and artistic effect. The part of Bertha
so well played by Miss Eva Finlay is
not an easy one to give and Miss
Finlay's previous experience showed to
good advantage in the simplicity and
naturalness with which she portrayed
Caleb's blind daughter.

A very charming feature of the last
act was the appearance of the Spirit of
the Cricket played by Miss Evelyn
Wyne, and the dainty little fairies
from the first grade. After their spells
have been woven and John has heard
the Cricket's reassuring words, it seems
but natural that everything should turn
out right and that Caleb's son returned
from ''the golden South Americas"
should be the happy bridegroom who
suceeds in winning the charming May
from old Tackelton. Mr. West as the
Old Gentleman, later transformed into
Edward Plummer, Miss Nora Humberd
as May Fielding, and Miss Florine Ful-
kerson as Mrs. Fielding were very sat-
isfactory in these parts. The closing
scene with Dot's bright speeches and
the sudden advent of the quaintly
gowned neighbors was all too short and

not even the most enthusiastic applause
could raise the curtain to give us an-
other view.

The audience left feeling that they
had enjoyed a delightful home-like
evening with "The Cricket on the
Hearth" and carrying away a very
pleasant remembrance of Senior dra-
matics.

— M. L. C.

THE FACULTY GIVES A BANQUET

(Continued from page 149.)

briefly in his usual interesting way.
There were musical numbers by Miss
Shamel, Miss Dunsworth, and Mr.
and Mrs. Stocker.

In addition to the guests of honor,
the faculty and faculty wives, there
were present- Mr. Keefer, our resident
trustee, Captain and Mrs. Eads, Miss
Kernie Bayliss, Miss Zoe Bayliss and
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Stocker.

ST. ALBANS DEFEATED AGAIN

This Time the Score Was 16-7 and They
Were Beaten on Their Own Grounds.

Friday, May 10, the Normal ball
tossers made their first invasion into
foreign territory and returned with an-
other victory added to their list. For
the second time the boys of the St.
Albans Military Academy at Knoxville
were defeated, this time by a score of
16-7. The game was not very inter-
esting to watch as several errors were
made on both sides. Our boys how-
ever poled sixteen hits off Smith which
brought in an equal number of runs.
The St. Albans players succeeded in
getting nine hits off Stephens and Cat-
lin, one of them being a home run by
Stever.

This makes the first game ever
won by the Normal boys from St. Al-
bans on their home grounds. This
makes a total of four games won and
two lost in the last three seasons.
The team has not lost a game this
season to date. The next game is
with Carthage College at Carthage.

152

next Friday.

The line-up fol'ows:-

St. Albans Normal

Stever 1 b Wetzel

Miller 2 b Erwin

Werls 3 b Huey

Wright s s Terrill

Moore c Jeffries

Stream 1 f Black

Ravesies c f ...Allely, Stephens

Hogart r f Walters

Smith p ...Stephens, Catlin

St. Albans— 1220001 10 — 7
Normal — 210213313— 16

Summary: Two base hits: Erwin, Jef-
fries, Hogart. Three base hits: Black
Walters, Werts, Hogart. Home run:
Stever. First base on balls; off Smith
4; off Stephens 1; off Catlin 6. Left
on bases: Normal 10, St. Albans 12.
Struck out by Stephens 1 , by Catlin 8
by Smith 8. Double play; Erwin.
Passed balls; Jeffries, Moore 4. Hit
by pitcher: by Smith, Terrill, Walters;
by Catlin, Wright.

BOY SCOUT PLAY

The boy scout movement wlhchhas
swept over the United States the past
two years has produced much com-
ment and has been the topic of many
magazine articles. Miss Davis has
just had printed a play dealing with
the life and activity of scouts.

It is given in two acts and includes
some excellent drills that can be worked
out by the boys who give it. Sixteen
characters are needed and the stage
accessories can be furnished easily.

Five hundred copies were printed on
the Courier press and folded and cov-
ered by the Courier force. The me-
chanical phase is entirely satisfactory.

Any who wish more definite infor-
mation regarding this play should write
to Miss Susan B. Davis, Macomb, 111.

Volume I of "The Cantonian ', a
yearbook published by the graduating
class of the Canton High School has
lately come to our notice. It is well
bound and well printed and would do
justice to a college. The pictures are
fine and the drawings are indeed ex-
ceptional.

The Western Courier

MEMORIAL DAY BOOKLET

A thing of interest now is the'me-
morial day booklet issued by Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, Francis
G. Blair. It contains quite a large
number of poems dedicated to those
who wore the blue and the gray.
There are also quite a number of inter-
esting articles by various authors.
Some of them are as follows: "Grant
and Lee" by Frederick Trevor Hill.
This deals mostly with the lives of
Grant and Lee before they became
conspicuous as the two leading generals
of the Civil War.

There is an article on "The Illinois
Soldiers' Orphans' Home", at Nor-
mal, Illinois, by the superintendent of
the institution, Robert N. Mc Cauley.
This explains the purpose of the home
and the character of work done there.
Two other articles of a similar nature
are about "The Illinois Soldiers' and
Sailors' Home" at Quincy, and "The
National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers" at Danville. The book is
also liberally supplied with pictures.

Perhaps though, the thing of real in-
terest to Normal students is the story
of the tragic death of our own princi-
pal, Mr. Bayliss. This should not only
interest Normal students but all those
who knew him and knew what he stood
for. A very clear half-tone cut of Mr.
Bayliss accompanies the story.

George Salisbury and Victor Wood
have been doing some map work for
Mr. Dickerson. The outline map of
T'linois is being marked so that it
will show the French settlement, the
eld forts and block houses of the
War of 1812, the Military Tract, and
the proposed internal improvement
of 1837. One of these maps is ex-
pected to appear in an Illinois sup-
plement to the Woodburn and Moran
School History of the United States,
published by Longman, Green & Co.
There is some talk of having one of
the maps published by the school for
the benefit of teachers.

The second grade occupied the
chapel time Monday with reading.
Master Paul Spahr announced the
program. First a group of seven
children read a selection, next three

children read, and last a dramatiza-
tion was given by six of the class of
the "Musicians of Bremen". This
last number was very well done and
showed the interest the children
take in such work and also showed
that self-consciousness was entirely
absent.

These exercises are always enjoyed
by the older students and no doubt by
the children themselves.

This spaco is respectfully dedicated
to the members of the faculty who
think the Courier is a good thing but
think they have no responsibility in the
matter.

Will they kindly appreciate our
position when we are expected to do
this besides the regular course?

See MINER For

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imois

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., MAY 23, 1912.

NUMBER XXXIX

This Is what happened to Mr. Hursh a few days ago when the pleasing voice of a railway conductor calling

from the peaceful land of dreams.

COME ALL YE FISHERMEN
AND LISTEN TO A FISH STORY

Herein Are the Results of the Sir Isaac Wal-
ton Conference Held on Friday Last and
Instituted by Trustee Keefer.

Friday evening Mr. Keefer's fish-
ing contest was held on the balmy
shores of Lake Ruth. Every organ-
ization in school was represented by
at least one person, and most of
them by two. Some of us have fished
ever since the time when we first saw
a body of water large enough fcr
mosquitos to live in, and we found
out the mosquitos would bite even if
the fish didn't. Others of us could-
n't fish even if we wanted to real
bad because of those cold, wriggly,
squirming worms.

It some times happens that those
with the least experience catch the
most fish. The reader may judge
whether this is so in this case, after
reading the statistics of this great
ocntest.

Mr. Fred Sykes caught the largest
number of fish — fifteen. He repre-
sented the eleventh grade. Miss
Anna Long, representing the Sequel
boar-!, was second with twelve fish.
The afcr°said received first and se-
ond prizes respective^, both of
which consisted of a jointed fishing
rod ad tackle given by Mr. Kee r er.
As regards organizations, the elev-
enth grade came first with twenty-one

(Continued on page 156.)

"CARTHAGE MUST BE DE-
STROYED", BUT SHE WASN'T

The Base Ball Boys Lose Their First Game

This Season When Carthage College

Wins by a Scere of 4-2.

At last the fast Normal team has
met its Waterloo. It was not because
we were outclassed however, but for
of the simple reason that the boys
had a slump in the hitting line. The
successful team was a group from
Carthage College. The game was
played on Carthage grounds. Stephens
pitched wel., allowing only five hits
and getting six strike outs. O'Haverof
Carthage went him one better, allowing
only two hits and getting eighteen strike
outs.

Terrill, the first man up for Normal,
did well getting a two base hit, steal-
ing third, and coming in on a wild pitch.
Wetzel also did some excellent work
in base running, stealing home during
the latter part of the game and making
our other run.

Carthage got one hit in the first in-
ning which however yielded no runs.
Their hit fest occurred in the third in-
ning when they clouted out three hits
which with the help of some errors on
our side was responsible for three runs

(Continued on page 156.)

THE ALUMNI PLAN FOR

A BIG HOME-COMING

A Clg Picnic Supper in the Ravine Is to be

Followed by a Recital on the

New Organ.

The annual meeting of the alumni
association will be made into a home-
coming of all graduates. The secretary
of the association, Miss Lavinia Stin-
son, has sent the graduates the follow-
ing notice:

"Following the wishes of our beloved
president, now deceased, the alumni
association has planned to make the
decennial of our school a homecoming.

The program for the day is as follows:
Graduating Exercises 1 oclock
Alumni Meeting 3 o'clock.
Reunion and Alumni Picnic

4 to 6 o'clock.

Organ Concert 8 o'clock

The picnic supper and organ recital
together with soloists and a violinist
to complete an evening's entertainment
will replace the formal banquet. To
the evening concert each alumnus is
permitted to invite four guests."

"The price, one dollar, includes a
picnic supper for one, and admission
of bearer and four guests to the evening
entertainment. Extra plates at supper

(Continued on page 154.)

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EDITOR GUT HOYT

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MORE ABOUT AGRICULTURE

Attention was called last week to
the gift by Sears, Roebuck & Co. for
the benefit of higher agriculture. In a
later issue of the Chicago Record-
Herald there was an editorial setting
forth certain facts regarding the de-
mand for college graduates who have
specialized in agriculture.

At the close of the year 1911 the
members of the Wisconsin College of
Agriculture found positions paying sal-
aries ranging from $600 to $3000.
There was a demand for experts in
this line that would have totaled $450,
000 in salaries conld they have been
filled.

In add'tion to this the editorial says
the "ru!e-of-thumb, haphazard meth-
ods will not do on the farm any more
than in the well-managed factory.''
In defining the student's position in ag-
ricultural work the Record-Herald
says: "The student of agriculture
has a brighter prospect ahead of him
than any professional student and his
work will benefit the world as well as
himself."

IMPORTANT BULLETIN

Prof. Frank L. Martin of the Uni-
versity of Missouri has recently written
a paper in the Education Series on
"Journalism for Teachers." It is not
only of value to teachers who have
some tendencies toward journalism
but to all teachers who are interested
in the good of their community. In

The Western Courier

speaking of the reason teachers should
know something of journalism, Prof.
Martin says:

"Few teachers realize the eager-
ness of the reading public of today in
any community, for news of the
schools. That interest is vital because
such news has to do directly or indi-
rectly, with their children." "The
limited knowledge ot the average teach-
er as to what constitutes news or as
to what information is of general inter-
est and hence should go to the news-
papers, prevents him from furnishing
the desired information.

"One remedy would be for teachers
to acquire at least an elementary
working knowledge of journalism. This
would enable them to recognize and
furnishnews to the newspaper represent-
atives, or better yet, to gather and write
this news and submit it to the news-
papers themselves.

"The publication regularly of news
from any school must necessarily result
in a closer relationship between that
school and its patrons. It tends to
arouse a greater interest in matters of
importance to the school."

Under another heading the bulletin
says:

"No citizen in any community is
better fitted to become a leader in the
affairs of his community than the
teacher. The interests of that com-
munity are, or should be, as vital to
him as to the banker, the merchant
or any professional resident. The
newspaper offers him the best possible
means of assuming some of the re-
sponsibilities of such a leadership, pro-
viding he has the ability of expressing
his views in writing."

A paragraph regarding school pa-
pers is of interest especially to people
who will go into high schools.

"The distinguishing mark of many
of the school papers issued by pupils is
flippancy, both in relation to the ma-
terial presented and the manner of
presentation. The aim of those pub-
lishing and writing, it appears, is
merely amusement, rather than that
of making the paper fill a need or
serve a purpose for the school as a
whole or for the pupils. No serious

attempt is made to give a faithful or
accurate report of school activities,
the things which directly affect the
pupils and the things which they are
interested in most.*'

Many other interesting points of in-
formation make this bulletin so valu-
able that those who are going out to
teach school should write for a copy.

ALUMNI PLAN FOR HOME-COMING

(Contiuued from page 153;

fifty cents each."

In connection with the organ concert
it might be said that this is an entirely
new feature. The dedication of the
organ will take place June 2 so this
will be the first recital ir. the auditor-
ium. An organist of much ability will
be procured for the evening. This with
the additional music will make the ev-
ening a pleasant one for the alumni and
their friends.

MISS DAVIS SPEAKS AT SUMMUM

Miss Davis reports a very interesting
time as the result of her trip to Sum-
mum last Friday. The occasion was
the graduating exercises of the eighth
grades of three townships. There were
twenty graduates, eleven boys and nine
girls who were as sturdy and attractive
looking young people as one often sees.
The exercises were under the direction
of Miss Pearl Davis, a graduate of our
academy last year.

According to the custom at Sum-
mum Miss Davis has remained a
week after the closing of her school
preparing for their exercises and our
Miss Davis says she has never seen a
more orderly or well conducted enter-
tainment.

The program consisted of several
musical numbers, a salutatory, a vale-
dictory, and the address by Miss S. B.
Davis on "Humor in Life and Edu-
cation."

Attention Alumni!
Remember the big retinion
June 6. Please send in your
postal at once so that plates may
be reserved for you.

The Western Courier

A DIAGRAM OF THE KEOKUK POWER PROJECT.

A TRIP TO THE KEOKUK DAM

Several of the Faculty Take a Trip to See
This Big Piece of Engineering Skill.

Last Saturday a party of twenty
from our faculty and their families
went to Keokuk to see the big dam.
The real object of the trip was not
only to see the dam, power house,
and the locks, but to see the ways
and means whereby such an immense
project is being accomplished.

We were met at Hamilton by a
friend, Mr. Wilson, who took charge
of the party and proved himself to
be a helpful guide and entertaining
host.

We first visited the quarry where
the company gets the limestone rock
for the concrete work.

This is a firm rock and convenient-
ly located at the end of the dam on
the Illinois side. This is blasted by
dynamite by boring about twenty
six-inch holes twenty feet deep and
loading these with a ton of dyna-
mite and then exploding the charge
by the use of electricity. With one
charge a rrass of rock equal in v 1-
ume to that of Society Hall is thrown
out and then the huge steam shovels
load it on to cars and it is taken to
the stone crushers nearby.

The power for running the drills
and for much of the other work is
compressed air from the company's
plant.

The sand for the concrete work is
obtained six miles down the river
and the cement from Hannibal, Mo.

The stone, sand and cement are
drawn up on elevated tracks so they
can be dumped into bins by gravity
and then run Into the concrete mix-
ers by gravity and from the mixers

the concrete is run into the cars also
by gravity and then taken out to the
dam, or power house, or locks by
steam cars.

Three tracks run along the top of
the dam and tracks are numerous
everywhere as are the twenty en-
gines which are constantly buzzing
about hauling material.

One must see for himself to real-
ize the immensity of the task of
building the second largest dam of
its kind in the world. The dam is
4,900 feet long, 47 feet wide at the
base, and about 30 feet at the top.
The limestone rock extends entirely
across the river and the cement ex-
tends into this 35 feet, making a
solid and safe foundation.

It is reported that this is the only
locality along the entire length of
the river where there is a rock bot-
tom, and therefore where such a
dam could be built.

This dam raises the level of the
water 30 feet and backs up the wa-
ter for fifty-five miles. The company
is planning to use 300,000 H. P. of
which 60,000 H. P. will be used at
St. Louis. Very likely much of this
will be used in Chicago, as it can
be transmitted that far by raising
the potential to 110,000 volts. The
current will be furnished to near
by consumers for three-fourths of
what it can be obtained from any
other source.

The dam is over half completed
and the work is being pushed night
and day. It is expected that it will
be finished and the plant ready to
start by May 1st, '13. One of the
most interesting features of the
work is that of shutting out the wa-
ter while the cement is being placed.
Piles are driven about a given area,
rock is dumped outside of these and

covered with clay and thus a tem-
porary dam surrounds this area. The
water is then pumped out, steel
forms put in place, the cement run
in, the forms removed and this is
continued until the dam in this
space is completed.

In this way the dam is being rap-
idly pushed across the river.

The power house is 1,400 feet
lcng or four times as long as our
Normal building. It contains thirty
great turbines, each connected di-
rectly with a huge dynamo furnish-
ing 7,500 K watts, or 10,000 H. P.
It is estimated that the energy is
about one-third of all the power now
used in the state of Illinois.

The water comes to the power
house on the Keokuk side and passes
through the wheels with a fall of
thirty feet.

Work on this power house is being
pushed and they have the foundation
and basement completed and are
now working on the first story. The
men of the party were interested in
a huge travelling crane used in the
construction work.

Just below the power house is be-
ing constructed the big lock, 400
feet long and 150 feet wide.

This is also a concrete monolith,
the cement on each side being 75
feet high and 30 or 40 feet wide.

Patent gates, controlled by com-
pressed air, close this lock. This re-
places the old locks, three in num-
ber, and does away with the eight-
mile canal which was formerly nec-
essary.

This is the greatest one-lock in the
world and has a possible lift of 40
feet. A dry dock is also to be built
for the use of the United States gov-
ernment.

This work is done with no expense

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Tan Alpha Tau —

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Phi Delta Kappa —

Francis Campbell 1

Lloyd Card

to the government.

Incidentally the dam with the lock
is a great aid to the shipping indus-
try, as when the boats are through
the locks, they can go easily the next
60 miles, which used to be shallow
and dangerous. The water over this
area will be from 20 to 3 feet deep.

Space will not permit only the
mention of the large machine shops,
foundries, compressed air plants,
which have been erected for this
work, but look like permanent in-
dustries.

This immense water power, lo-
cated in the heart of the agricultural
area of the United States, means
more than we can now realize.

It is a real asset to the manufact-
uring wealth of the middle west.

The cost of construction is $25,-
000,000. The party returned, feel-
ing amply repaid for the days' ef-
fort, and suggest that all who can
make an effort to see the dam in
process of construction.

J. P. DRAKE.

"CARTHAGE MUST BE--"

(Continued from page 153.)

in that inning. They also crossed an-
other man over the plate later in the
game.

An excellent chance of winning the
game was lost in the ninth inning or
was rather taken from us. O' Haver
who became a little bit wild, issued
three free passes which filled the bases.
Catlin was then sent in as a pinch hit-
ter in place of Wetzel. But O'Havcr
tightened up and put over three strikes,
thus ending the inning and all hopes
of another victory for Normal.

The Normal line-up:

Wetzel, lb; Jeffries, 2b; Huey, 3b;
Terrill, ss: Nichol.c; Black, If; Allely,
cf; Walters, rf; Stephens, p.

Carthage— 00300010*— 4
Normal— 100010000— 2

A FISH STORY

(Continued from page 153.)

fish, and the Sequel board seco d
with seventeen. The tctal number
of fish caught was ninety-e'ght.

The following is the name of each
organization, its representatives, and
Qumfber of fish caught by each:

Phi Sigma (Jpallon —

Ed Norton, Jr

Ralph Switzer

Sequel Board —

Anna Ix>ng li]

George Rausch 3

Open Country Club —

Mae Windiscta 1

Trustees —

Mr. Keefer 6

Apology: This list is not com-
plete nor accurate as it was impossi-
ble to make it so. So please take it
in the spirit it is given, good na-
turedly, and don't cuss the editor.

The commencement address this
year will be delivered June 6th by Rev.
Lorenzo D. Case, D.D. Dr. Case is
pastor of St. Paul's Church at Chicago.
This church is one of the most highly
developed centers of social wor/. in
the middle west. Later will appear
more definite information regarding
the graduation exercises.

See MINER For

Books and
School Supplies

P. D. ROARK,

Prescription Druggist

NORTH SIDE SQUARE,

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DR. O. H. PIPER,

Dentist

I. O. O. F. BUILDING,
Nerth Sida Square.

Macomb

DR. F. A. LANE.
Dentist,

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House rhont 12 Offict 141

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Capital. Surplus and Profit $1 46000.0*

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., MAY 30, 19*2.

NUMBER XL

MR. WHITE HAS JOINED THE GOLF FIENDS.
They say that playing golf reduces one's weight. Wc have triad sawing wood and find it
very satisfactory.

GREAT EARTH QUAKE IS

FELT IN THIS VICINITY

The Courier Force Is Alarmed by Selsmo

graphic Disturbances Causid by a Great

Body Launched Earthward.

Sunday morning about 8:30 the
shock of an earthquake was felt in the
western part of the city. It was espe-
cially noticed by the entire Courier
force except the editor himself. How-
ever, the official cartoonist, the head
pressman, and the assistant editor had
just finished eating a hearty breakfast
and were returning to their rooms when
they discovered the business manager
lying peacefully in a hammock. Now
the business manager weighs a little
less than a ton. You can imagine the
tremor when all this bulk was suddenly
spilled upon the earth by a tricky
hammock which had been excited by
three mischievous boys. If you can't,
ask Mr. White er any other member
of the Courier force. Please be care-
ful, though, if you ask Mr. White; he
is liable to throw a number eleven
shoe at you.

FLOWER PAGEANT IS

A GREAT SUCCESS

The Children, Big and Little, under the Di-
rection of Miss Lamkin Produce
Beautiful Exercises.

The Annual Field Day program was
carried ou* successfully last Friday.
The weather was ideal for such an
event.

At 9:30 the Grand Processional began.
The entire training school from the kin-
dergarten to the eighth grade together
with the girls from all the classes
marched on to the field before a
crowded amphitheater.

The children were "made up" to
represent various well known flowers.
The older girls carried garlands and
wreaths. After the kindergartners,
and first and second graders enter-
tained the crowd with songs, marches
and games. Each grade was responsi-
ble for some number of the program.
The new organization, the Girl Scouts,
from the seventh and eighth grades
and the Boy Scouts from the same
grades did very well in their military
marches.

(Continued on page 159.)

AGAIN THE BASE BALL

BOYS ARE VICTORIOUS

For the Secnd Time This Year Augusta Falls

a Victim to Defeat while Catlln Does

the Pitching Act.

The Normal Braves made their
third invasion into foreign territory
Saturday last and came back with
nine Augusta scalps hanging from
their ibelts. Augusta High has a
scrappy bunch of players, and they
certainly played a good game. Leach
pitched for them, allowing only five
hits and getting thirteen strike-outs.
He also had good support.

Catlln twirled for the local ath-
letes and pitched his usual consist-
ent game. He allowed hut six hits
and put eleven men out by the strike-
out route. The support which the
rest of the team gave was iron-clad,
when we consider the very rough
diamond on which the game was
played, and the fact that we were
not accustomed to it accounts for the
five errors chalked up to the team.

Terrill's work deserves especial
mention, as he was given four free
passes to first and credit for eight
stolen bases. Walters was very evi-
dent when it came to hitting, making
an average of .667 during the game.
Nichol worked behind the bat and
has regained his old-time form and
his perfect peg to second. Sorensen
played his first game of the season
on the third sack and acquitted him-
self well.

Every member of the team work-
ed together and a victory over Gem
City tomorrow seems doubly sure.

The score:

Augusta. Normal.

Working ss Terrill

Walsh 2b Erwin

Holmes rf Walters

Gordon c Nichol

Artz If Alexander

Farlow „. , .cf Allely

H. Eastman ..... lb Imes

L. Eastman v3b Sorensen

Leach .p Catlin

Augusta 00100001 — 2

Normal 00204000 1—7

Hits — Walters 2, Nichol, Imes,
Catlin, Walsh 2, Working 2, Holmes,

(Continued on page 160.)

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Vol. IX Thur. May 30, 1912. No. 40

ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER
MAR. 3, 1908, ATTHF POST OFFICE AT
MACOMB. ILL. UNDER THE ACT OF CON-
FESS OF MARCH 3. 1870.

EDITOR GUT HOYT

ASS'T EDITOR. THERON CHANEY
ILLUSTRATOR. . .VIRGIL CATLIN

Business Manager C. B. Whit*

Asst. Business Manager

George Salisbury

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This is the last issue of the Courier
for the regular school year. It will be
continued thru the summer school,
however. If you want your paper sent
to you this summer leave your address at
the Courier office.

ARE WE IN A RUT?

The question of the value of the
yearbook, "The Sequel," is being
discussed by the faculty and by
many students as well. A few words
from one who has been viewing the
matter from the inside may help to
clarify some ideas on the subject

Undoubtedly a Sequel is a fine
thing to have, but does the cost of
the book exceed its usefulness? In
the first place the Senior class, be-
sides its regular program of work,
which, by the way, is heavy enough
to keep every member busy, agrees
to raise money for a hundred and
seventy-six page book and superin-
tend the making of it.

The nature of this book makes the
compiling of the matter difficult.
Numerous pictures must appear and
somebody must be responsible for
having them taken. Pen drawings
are also in demand and some one
must see that persons are engaged to
do them. The literary material is
usually nonsense, but it has to come,
nevertheless. This year an attempt
has been made to get solid reading
into the book in place of too many
local points. Now it is evident to
the reader of this article that the
book Is being made by more than a
score of people. It is the business of
the board of control to keep these
people at work and to see that ma-
terial comes In on time. Tardiness

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is the worst end with which the
editor-in-chief has to deal.

The board must see to the letting
of the contracts for printing, bind-
ing, and engraving, besides the work
of editing and arranging a page
dummy of the work.

Enough has been said to convey
some idea of the amount of work
that devolves on those in charge of
the work. The expense is the next
question.

The class really takes the respon-
sibility of raising a little more than
one thousand dollars during its last
year of school life. This year $901
and more was cleared. The expense
would have made the sum total more
than $1,500.

The next question that naturally
arises is "How is this amount to be
raised?"

First, the sale of the books at
$1.00 will net about $375. Second,
the annual Shakespearian play
yields about $200. Thirdly, every
device imaginable is used to rase
the remainder. A student directory
is issued with advertisements from
the business men down town. Calen-
dars are sold about Christmas time.
Usually a circus, a minstrel, or other
stunt is given. This year "The Crick-
et on the Hearth" was given. Some-
times the members tax themselves
to complete the job. Lastly, cer-
tain individuals andl societies are
willing to pay for their engraving
work.

Now is this too much for a class
to undertake? Is the finished book
worth $1,000?

In this connection it might be well
to say that a mistaken idea has
grown up in regard to the Sequel.
Some people think the Senior class
gets rich out of the deal. In reality
the class simply acts as custodian of
the money, putting it in book form
and giving it back to the students
for actual cost. Some others have
the idea that the ibook just grows.
If the above argument has not ban-
ished that idea let those persons
learn from experience.

And it is not the class alone which
works. The members of the faculty,
who teach the subjects that the book
requires for its making, come in for
their share of the work. Miss Davis
is almost dramatized to death, Miss
Buckner is almost insane over pen
drawings, Mr. Johnson works over-
time with the camera, Miss Colby
worries her brain to think of some-
thing for the class to provide as a

i.m ji ii for the rarioiu it in
many other members do iroi ■

Now the question is "What are
you going to do about it, anyway?"

Don't understand the class is try-
ing to dodge work. It merely be-
lieves that there is such a thing as
slighting important things for less
important ones because custom de-
mands a Sequel. — A Member of the
Board of Control.

The editor and assistant editor
wish to say a few words to the readers
of the Courier to show their appreci-
ation of the spirit with which the pa-
per has been received.

We believe any school paper has no
excuse for being unless it serves a
serious purpose in the life of the
school. This Normal School has a
character and a reputation the same
as an individual. This character and
reputation may both be good but they
are not above improvement. The
Western Col rier for the past year has
attempteJ to better the school. May
it do so effectively next year and years
that are to follow.

If the the least gccd comes to this
school from the effort the paper has
put forth this year the editors will feel
amply repaid. If in a few years from
now the Courier has grown in influence
and popularity, the editors will feel
honored for having been connected
with it this year.

Mr Johnson took three dozen differ-
ent photographs of the events Friday.
He has almost every class in action.
The track and field events were caught
at interesting points. The girls' base-
ball game was "snapped" a number of
times showing the skill of our girls in
that game. At least two pictures show
the ball in mid air with some one in
the act of catching it or striking at it.

Mr. Alfred Sorensen, '12 has been
eleted to the principalship of the
school at New Boston, 111., at $80 per
month.

All library books are due
Monday June 3rd at noon.

Do not allozu your name to
appear on the delinquent list.

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FLOWER PAGEA NT A SUCCESS

(Continued from page 157)

The children from the fifth grade
gave the second part of the program.
This was the Knighting Ceremony as
it was performed in Feudal times.
The children have been studying this
in connection with their work in history
so it was valuable to them as a dram-
atization lesson.

The last part of the program was
the crowning by the entire group of
the Flower Queen, Miss Eva Finlay
of the Senior class,

The day was was one that will be
long remembered by the children who
took part in the exercises and it also
agreeably entertained the older people
who came.

Miss Lamkin and her assistants
have done much work in training the
children for this event and no doubt
their efforts have been well repaid by
the praise coming from the many who
were present.

"MR. BOB" PRESENTED

The twelfth grade graduating class
gave a very lively little comedy in the
auditorium last Tuesday evening to a
large crowd. The play" Mr. Bob'' unique
in its comical and intricate plot and
played as it was by a strong cast made
it the most laughable event this year.

Mr. Dewitt Dobson as Robert Brown,
a clerk for Benson and Benson, was
the center of the plot and the trying
places in his part were exceptionally
well acted. Miss Sarah Stocking playing
the part of Rebecca Luke, a maiden
lady.was perfectly at home in her inter-
pretation and acting. Mr. Phillip Roy-
son, the yacht enthusiast, was repre-
sented by Mr. Edward Norton, Jr.
His acting was both free and natural
and brought much favorable com-
ment from the audience.

Miss Dorothy Stinson as Katherine
Rogers, showed herself to bo quite an
expert in practical joking. Mr. War-
ner Watson, the butler, Jenkins by
name, was constant amusement to the
audience. His English accont was
very effective and his acting indeed

fitting to the part.

Patty, the Irish maid to Miss Rebec-
ca, was played by Miss Florence Mickey
and surely no one could have played
the part hotter. Her hatred for cats
and her love for Jenkins and the
drama was the source of much real
merriment. Miss Freda Welborn
took the part of Marian Bryant, Miss
Katherine's friend, who goes by the
name of "Mr. Bob." Her unassum-
ing conduct on the stage made her
part attractive.

Miss Davis in this play and in all
the plays this year and in former
years has shown herself to be a first
class "coach". Her choice of char-
acters is invariably correct and her
staging ability is always shown in the
finished appearance of the plays.

In all the play was excellent and
the actors should feel justified in giv-
ing it.

SECOND DIPLOMAS

Those who graduate from the Nor-
mal School and go directly to teaching
are still connected with the school in
that their work is inspected carefully
by a member of the faculty who inquires
in various ways into the efficiency of
the graduate. After two years of suc-
cessful teaching a second diploma is
granted. This diploma is real'y a re-
commendation from this school based
on actual teaching experience. A list
of graduates who will receive the se-
cond diploma June 6 is given below:

Fay Bearmore, '10
Vail Cordell, '10
Ursula Darke, '08
Anna Doran, '08
Flora Ellis, '09
Ralph Eyman, '10
Cordie Gustin, '08
Anna Hanson, '09
Caroline Holmes, '10
Florence Imes, '10
Helen Irvine, '10
Bess Kirkpatrick, '05
Melvin V. Lanthorn, '10
Louise Roberts, '09
Ben Runkle, '09
Lucile Scott, '10
Lucy Smith, '08

Lavinia Stinson, '09
Blanche Swigert, '10
Ward Taylor, '08
Berenice Wagner '10
Louisa Weatherhead 04
Alice Westberg '08
Irma White '10
Merle Willard '09
June Woods, '08

THE INTER-CLASS MEET

For the sixth time tht class of 1912
has had a part in winning the banner
given for the championship in track
and field athletics. In the spring of
1907 this class with the class above
it won the banner and has carried k
along every year since that time.
This has not been done easily, however.
Last year the eleventh and twelfth
grades lost it to the Normal depart-
ment by only two points.

The Normal department relied
much on Sorensen and Nichol for win-
ners and they proved themselves worthy.
The Academy counted much on Dob-
son, Wilson, and Stickle, whil« the
nines and tens depended on C. Thom-
son and Watson.

The races were fast and the field
events were interesting. Nichol broke
his record with the discus at 104 feet,

NOTED EDUCATOR COMING

The students of the summer school
will have the opportunity of hearing
Philander P. Claxton, the United
States Commissioner of Education in
a speech set for July 8.

Mr. Claxton is one of the most en-
tertaining and forcible speakers in
education before the American people
today. Before becoming commiss-
ioner of education he was head of tho
department of education in the Un-
iversity of Tennessee. He is well known
among educators of the country and it
will be a great opportunity for the sum-
mer students to hear him. The subject
of his lecture has not been learned.

Lilace Kidd, '08, of Astoria was
showing some of her high school grad-
uates about the ouilding Monday.

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BASE BALL BOYS VICTORIOUS

(Continued from page 157.)

Artz 2. Earned runs — Normal 4, Au-
gusta 1. First base on balls — oft
Leach, Terrill 4, Walters; off Catlln,
Leach, Artz. First base on errors —
Alexander 2, Nichol, Leath, Gordon,
Holmes 2, Farlow. Struck out — by
Catlin 11, by Leach 13. Hit by
pitcher — Nichol. Left on ba?es — Au-
gusta 8, Normal 5. Time, 1:40. Um-
pire, W. Working.

Hot Off the Bat,

When the team arrived at Augusta
they discovered that they only 1 ad
two bats. Alexander ibecame so anx-
ious to get a hit that he broke one,
and then there was only one bat,
which came through the fray suc-
cessfully.

Augusta's right fielder, Jo .e-,
tried stealing second base in the
eighth inning, but "Nick's" peg he t
him and "Jimmy" ran half way to
first to tag~him out. He didn't try
it again.

Leach knocked a foul in the eighth
between third and home. "Sory"
and "Nick" could not decide whose
ball it was, so they both tried for it.
Ask "Sory" about the rest.

Onno used his German tongue very
fluently in the C., B. & Q. station be-
fore coming home. He reports a per-
fectly delightful time. We wonder
why?

The team was accompanied by the
venerable scorer, the esteemed as-
sistant editor, and two well known
personages, "Gob" and "Doc."

SENIOR RECEPTION

Mr. and Mrs. McGilvrey were given
a farewell reception by the class of 1912
last Thursday evening in the Domestic
Science room. This class took up its
Junior work under Mr. McGilivrey's in-
struction and was much impressed with
his congenial personality from the first.
The program was informal, every
member responding to a call from the
class president, Mr. Switzer. All spoke
freely of the inspiration they had rec-
eived from Mr. McGilvrey and all join-
ed in wishing him the greatest success
In his new school in Northeastern
Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. McGilvrey were pre-
sented with an enlarged photograph of

the Normal building and campus which
Mr. Johnson had hand-colored beauti-
fully.

SEQUEL REPORT

Below is given the financial report
of the Sequel proceedings.

Receipts.

Galesburg Play

Directory

Calendar

As You Like It

Cricket on the Hearth $448.00

Fraternities

Sororities

Societies

Individuals for

engravings $79 75

Sale of Sequel $375.00

Total receipts $902.75

Expenses

Photography $35.00

Printing and Binding 530.00
Engraving 313.44

Incidentals- freight, ex-
press, postage,

telephone, etc. 25.00

Total expenses $903.44

Deficit $.69

Mr. Johnson has been engaged in
taking a number of pictures of the
school, its surroundings, and the
school activities for Mr. McGilvrey to
lake with him to Kent. The purpose
is to show the board of trustees the
advantages and the advisability of
having a department of photography
in a Normal school.

Mr McGilvrey says that pictures of
the school and its activities are surely
the best advertising medium that can
found.

Certainly the work of the department
here has been of much value to the
school and to the students individually.
The pictures taken are very superior
and they are sold for just enough to
pay the cost of producing them. This
plan gives the students something
they can take away with them when
they leave the school, at a low cost.

A letter fccm tie t<
Canton Pennant, Miss Leona Onion a^B
knowleging receipt of the prize given by
the Courier to that paper has been re- .
ceived.

Miss Onion says, "We surely appre-
ciate the effort of the Wectern Courier)
in its desire to raise the standard of
high school papers, and I feel sur*M
that this years contest has aroused a
new interest in that particular phase
of expression of school life and spirit
I hope that the idea may be con-,!
tinued "

If the Courier has done something
toward improving high school paper* ;
this year, it hopes it may do more next
year. Certainly a contest similar to
the one conducted this year would at-
tract more publications.

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VOLUME IX

MACOMB, ILL., JULY 18, 1912.

NUMBER XLI

PLANS OF THE WESTERN NOR-
MAL SCHOOL FOR YEAR 1912-13

A Few of tbe Things We Are Going to Do
NLxt Year. -The Mid-cprinj Term and Exten-
sion Courses Points of Especial Interest'

First of all, the regular work of
the three quarters and the summer
lerm will move forward much as they
have before, with the exception that
the courses of the summer term will
te so arranged that those who have
made half credits in subjects hereto-
fore may now finish those credits in
most cases, while the new subjects
will either be arranged in pairs or
given in double periods for a full
credit. This is intended to simplify
the system of giving credits and
avoid confusion and difficulty in con-
tinuing the courses from summer to
summer. Programs for the summer
work will be planned in sequence for
the next two summers.

There are many who teach in the
country and small towns who close
their schools before May 15 each
year and then must wait until the
middle of June before the Normal
School offers them an opportunity to
take up regular work in our summer
term. If they should attend every
summer term, it would take them
twelve years to graduate. This year
a new plan was tried out. A term of
twelve weeks, called the Mid-Spring
term, was organized. It opened on
May 6 and will close on July 26.
This term was opened with only three
weeks' notice to the County Superin-
tendents of the Military Tract, and
about half of them were unable to
get the word to their teachers. Thirty
stvdents appeared on May 6, or soon
after, to take up work that was offer-
ed. Of these thirty, twenty-seven
had taught school and twenty-five
had never attended a Normal School.
This made it evident that the plan
was a good one and that it was meet-
ing the needs of the country teachers.
Such a term's work will be provided
yearly now. This will enable the
teacher who can attend this term,
and who is a graduate of a fo".r-ye?r
high school, to complete the regular
-\ormal course and get a normal di-
ploma in six years. A student who

MR. MORGAN CHOSEN FOR PLACE
VACATED BY MR. McGILVREY

As Head of Department of Education and
Director of Training Mr. Morgan Has an
Intimate Knowledge of the School Affairs.

On June 17th, the opening day of
summer school, Mr. Walter P. Mor-
gan entered upon his duties as prin-
cipal of the Normal School, having
been elected to fill the vacancy crea-
ted by Mr. McGilvrey's resignation.

Mr. Morgan came to us in March
as head of the department of educa-
tion and director of training. In the
relationship which he has entered
into through this position, he has
come into close contact with the va-
rious departments and activities of
the school, and has been able to gain
an intimate knowledge of our school
affairs. For this reason, in addition
to his scholastic preparation and pre-
vious experience, he is qualified to an
unusual degree for the principalship.

Mr. Morgan is a graduate of the
Indiana State Normal School and of
Indiana University. He has had wide
experience in various kinds of teach-
ing and has been very successful, first
as a grade teacher, then for four
years as a high school teacher, for
six years teacher of mathematics in
the Indiana State Normal School, and
for two years superintendent of the
public schools of Terre Haute, Indi-
ana. For the past three years, while
doing graduate work at the Universi-
ty of Chicago he has been a teacher
in the department of mathematics in
the Englewood High School. Chicago.
He has received the degree Ph. M.
from Chicago University, and has
nearly completed his work for a doc-
tor's degree.

We believe that under Mr. Mor-
gan's administration the plans al-
ready begun will be completed and
the general work of the school broad-
ened and strengthened in such way
as to place the Western Normal
School in the highest rank of Normal
Schools in the United States.

wishes to take the country school
course may get the country school

(Continued oa page 162.)

RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES AT THE
WESTERN NORMAL SCHOOL

Character Building Given a Prominent Place.

Excellent Work Done In This Field by

Student Organizations.

While the Western Normal School
has carried along with reasonable ef-
ficiency all features of school life and
general culture, the religious element
as voiced in the work of the Y. M.
and Y. W. C. A. has been especially
gratifying These organizations were
started almost with the beginning of
the school and have continued to
grow stronger with each succeeding
year.

Full organization has been main-
tained in both organizations and they
have been affiliated with the state or-
ganizations. Representatives have
been sent to the Lake Geneva con-
ference each year, as well as to the
district and state conferences.

But the chief work of these organ-
izations has been in their weekly re-
ligious meetings, which are devoted
to worship, song, Bible study, and
lectures. The membership has been
large and the attendance good.

Members of the faculty have given
assistance, both in membership and
in work. At every meeting, or near-
ly so, some member of the faculty or
some minister or business man has
addressed the associations on those
.subjects relating vitally to young
people's ideals of religion, morality,
social ethics, business honor, and
health.

These meetings are held under
most favorable conditions, the young
men meeting in the music room and
the young women in the society hall,
both having elegant rooms with pi-
anos. Meetings are held at 6:45 p.
m. on each Tuesday, lasting one hour.

The earnestness, plain, practical
sincerity of the young people in this
work has been very gratifying and
very helpful in the life of the school,
not only for the general effect on the
school but in ways of assistance to
individual students, helping them in
locating and making acquaintances.

Too much cannot be said in com-
mendation of the character and work
of these organizations, and the schcol
administration, both present and

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past, deserves congratulat'or.s and
rraise for the development and main-
tenance of so efficient and large bod-
ies of young men and young women
in this very needful and helpful aux-
iliary work of the school.

PLANS FOR T HE YEAR 1912-13

(Continued from page 161)

certificate in three years. Subjects
f:re offered for this term in each of
the three courses, Academy, Country
School and Normal School. Pro-
grams for this work will be made out
in sequence for the next three years
so that one may plan a full year's
work in the beginning.

In the cities and larger towns there
are many teachers who would like to
take Normal School work, but who
are unable to attend the Normal
School without resigning their por-
tions. Extension courses in the regu-
lar Normal Schcol work are being
planned for such teachers. To carry
on this work, a regular member of
the faculty will outline it and go to
certain cities, which have not yet
been selected definitely, once every
week or every two weeks. Here he
will meet regularly organized classes,
of which the members shall study i
one or two subjects during the whole
school year and take a thorough ex-
amination at the close. If the work
of the several recitations, and they
are to be recitations not lectures, aid
the examinations are satisfactory,
one Normal School credit will be giv-
en for each subject so carried
throughout the year. Teachers are
rot expected to be able to carry more
;han two such subjects. This Will
furnish an added opportunity for
them to do Normal School work with-
out loss of salary or time.

The schcol now has $75,000 avail-
able for the erection of a g ; rls' dor-
mitory. The plans are being pre-
I ared and work will be started on the
buildine; this summer. It is hored
that the building may be avai'ab'e
for board and room for about one
hundred girls by the beginning of
the summer term in 1913. This will
fimplify the work of the girls in get-
ting located when they come here.

These are the main points of inter-
est in our plans for next year. Other
things will be announced as they are
worked out.

SUMMER SCHOOL ATHLECT1CS

The program for summer school
did not include mention of athletics,
nor was there anticipation that many
would have inclination for the ath-
letic field. As an experiment, the an-
nouncement was made that opportu-
nity for work along the lines of ath-
letics would be made for all mani-
festing interest. Classes in physical
education were organized immediate-
ly by Miss Lamkin and courses of in-
struction for those expecting to direct
athletics the coming year were offer-
ed by Miss Lamkin and Mr. Walrath.
There is proof enough that the Nor-
mal School, in filling its mission of
the summer season, must arrange for
a more complete schedule of physical
and athletic work.

At the psychological moment, one
may sny, came Mr. Henry S. Curtis,
the playground expert, to bring us the
message of the playground movement
in America. The demonstration of the
games of volley ball and long ball,
together with his four inspiring lec-
tures, will go far toward promoting
zeal in the cause of education in f~e
months to come, when it is better
understood that the direction of the
play instinct is vital in the school.

From the start the tennis courts
have attracted numbers and, at the
middle of the term, tournaments for
men and women are well un3er way.
In men's doubles the finals will be
played off during the week ending
July 19. At the same time the men's
singles and the girls' douMes v ill be
coming to the deci=ive content. Not
a few have learned the game ad
will return home to tench it to oth-
ers. Two new nets and exceUent
backstops for the courts are among
the new equipment recently installed.

An innovation in the Normal's pro-
gress is the laying off of volley ba 1
courts and playground and long ball
grounds upon the lawn at the back
of the building, where shade adds
to the enjoyment of the games. Sen-
timent may not yet permit that volley
ball be put in with the prescribed
studies, but that may ccme, as it is
demonstrated that erect posture,
alertness, generosity, and those finer
qualities of strong manhood can be
taught in no better way. Equipment
for life must needs include instruc-
tion in how to spend leisure time and
how to get recreation. These games
for young and old the nation will do

well to learn. It is hoped that two

or three tether ball

with additional playground a;;, ara-

tus may be procured at th

of another school session.

As is to be expected, interest in
the good old national game did not
lag. The same is good evidence that
the other games bring out those eith-
er unable or unwilling to play the
more strenuous games. Three teamg
of baseball were organized and many
interesting games have been played,
not the least entertaining of which
was the Fourth of July game between
faculty and students at eight o'clock
in the morning. It was a game well
contested, finishing with the score 5
to 3 for the students.

Baseball occasionally gives way
to track work even in the hot weath-
er; thanks to the leadership of Mr.
C P. White, who is giving some
pointers at the take-off board and on
the cinders. Coach Omer from
Northwestern University was sched-
uled to meet the men on July 11
for a discussion of athletic topics and
track work more particularly. On
the whole it has paid to organize the
Summer Athletic Association and, al-'
though the membership is not aai
large as was wanted, the way has i
been opened for carrying out larger
plans in summers to come.

THE CURTIS LECTURES

The summer school had a rare
treat on June 2 5th and 26th
when Dr. Henry Curtis, the play-
ground expert, gave four of his
splendid lectures and two play-
ground demonstrations.

"Play in Education" gave us:
First, the viewpoint of English
schools regarding the physical devel-
opment of the child. Two hours
daily are given to physical exercise
throughout the grades and in each
community is a Spiel Inspector whose
duty it is to see that the boys and
girls in that district have provisions
for healthful, w r holeso-me play;
swimming holes in summer, skating
in winter, etc.

Second — It gave us most convinc-
ing proof that play is the natural in-
stinct of the child in his training for
manhood and good citizenship. It j
is the natural channel through
which he finds himself and knows
his capabilities.

The Indian boy played hide-and-

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ek and learned to hunt his game;
j played tag and learned to run
iwn his game; he shot at the target
id learned to kill his

"Tlie Play Movement and Its Sig-
nificance" — Because play is the nat-
ural instinct of the child it does not
follow that he needs no help in his
Hay. No child has the instinct of
a game of ball any more than he has
of the time tables. Games need to
1 - taught and the mother or the
teacher who does not play with the
boys and girls loses a great influ-
ence for building among them. Play
increases friendship and sympathy;
every child needs play, whether he
lives in the country, the small vil-
lage or the city. A vacant lot with
no equipment or no director in
charge is not a playground, but be-
comes a loafing place and a menace
to the community. A director is
most important. The purpose of the
playground is not only to keep the
child off the streets but to raise his
health standard and to strengthen
his heart and his lungs. Six thou-
sand to seven thousand children die
every year of tuberculosis. Motor ac-
tivities in play build up the blood sup-
ply. Play teaches the child quick
judgment, courage, grit, the differ-
ence between right and wrong. This
surplus energy of the child needs
direction. Delinquency in many
cases comes from the wrong use of
the surplus energy .

"Play: Its Significance to the
Teacher" — Many teachers have tak-
en the stand of passive resistance
against the playground work because
it made more workforthem. Through
this attitude they not only lose a
close bond of sympathy and friend-
ship between them and the pupils,
but they lose much pleasure and
better health for themselves and the
children. They lose the discipline
which comes through the student
body, as an outgrowth of the games.
Don't carry the features of a school-
ma'am, but enjoy life with the child.
"The Social Center" — You cannot
take a social center out of a commu-
nity without putting something in
its place. The playground as a so-
cial center is taking the place of the
street, the saloon and the dance hall
as the center of social life in the
crowded city districts. The tragedy
of modern life is monotony in work.
The social demand when the day's
v.ork is over will be gratified with
whatever is at hand. The social cen-
ter is doing two distinct things for
the city masses — it is giving them a

decent place for amusements and it
is developing in them a community
sense.

These are some of the many good
things that Mr. Curtis gave us to
remember. The two playground
demonstrations in long ball and vol-
ley ball were the means of creating
lots of enthusiasm among us, and to-
gether with the lectures have
been a great inspiration to all of us
and I feel sure that they will
strengthen the playground interest
throughout the Military Tract.

— N. B. L.

COUNTRY SCHOOL EXHIBIT

An exhibit of work done in coun-
try schools has been on display in
Room 27 the past few days. It is
small, but suggestive of what may be
accomplished. The following letter
explains the plan and purpose of the
exhibit:

"Macomb, 111., Nov. 28, 1911.

"To the Open Country Club: We
are planning a big exhibit of country
school and community work for the
coming summer session of the West-
ern Normal. The club members, no
doubt, have already begun to prepare
material for entry. Here are a few
suggestions for further preparation:

"Arrange wtih a photographer to
print a number of different views of
the interior and exterior of your
buildings. Enough photosrarhs may
be sold among the friends and pa-
trons of the school to defray the ex-
penses of the exhibit. Mount these
pictures on sheets of dark cardboard
and be sure to write an account of
all improvements made during your
term of teaching. Also makes maps
and diagrams to show the position of
trees and outbuildings, and list the
improvements made. Make a draw-
ing of the floor plan of the school
room and n^te the changes made in
desk arrangements, stove, or other
school furnishings.

"Write up an interesting account
of all social gatherings, patrons' or
pupils' clubs, entertainment or lec-
ture courses, and also reports of vis-
its in the different homes of the dis-
trict. These reports may take the
form of compositions and stories
written by the pupils, or may be the
teacher's individual work.

"Save some of the best maps and

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drawings made by the children aiid
mount them neatly upon da.k card-
board. Select specimens of the diff-
erent pupils' writing made at the be-
ginning of the term and others made
near the close, and arrange so as to
show the improvement. Little book-
lets containing spelling, language or
writing exercises may also be enter-
ed. Collea lists of arithme ic prob-
lems, especially those relating to
farm activities. Save the be3t pro-
ducts of your lessons in handiwork
and manual training as well as in all
other lines of school work, for the ex-
hibition.

"Prepare a list of your library
books and classify them according to
the grades for which they we:e
meant. Indicate the books which
you have found to be the most popu-
lar among children.

"Write a complete account of any
opening exercises that you have
found helpful and interesting.

"Do not underestimate the value
of such an exhibit to your school.
You will feel well repaid for all of
the time and trouble taken in prepa-
ration, and you cannot afford to miss
this chance for bettering the condi-
tion of your school.

"Try to get others interested in
our club and work constantly toward
the standardization of every one-
roomed school in the Military Tract.
"MAMIE E. THOMSON,

"Secretary."

Unfortunately Miss Thomson has
been unable to attend the summer
school, and the work, after three
weeks' delay, was taken up by Mi c s
Eula Cordell, who has managed it
ably.

Prizes offered were award?d as
follows:

Ellison Valley school, Julia M. No-
lan, teacher, Carman, Illinois, Hen-
derson county —

Interior improvements $2.50

Sewing, work of pupils 75

Library improvement 1.50

District No. 148, Adams county,
Edna Kiem, teacher —
Account of social work in dist.$2.00
Cooking 75

District No. 97, Hancock county,
Mae Peck, teacher —

Construction work $1.50

Drawing 75

8unny Ridge School, Jessie Crick-

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ter, and if it could be done over it
would be. Experience has taught
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RALLY OF OPEN COUNTRY CLUBS

"GOOD-BY"

In the last issue of the Courier
before the close of the regular school
year, it was stated that it would be
continued throughout the Summer
Term. Later it was decided to pub-
lish only one number during the six
weeks and make that number dou-
ble size. So, with this issue, the
Courier bids all its friends "Good-
by" until September.

COUNTRY SCHOOL EXHIBIT

(Continued from page 163.)

et, teacher —

Essay on School Improvement. $1.50
These premiums should be an en-
couragement bo others to send in
such work for an exhibit next sum-
mer.

A rally of Open Country Clubs,
County Superintendents, teachers and
others interested in the movement
for country school improvement, was
held Monday, July 8th. The pro-
gram was as follows:

FORENOON.
Regular Normal School and Train-
ing School Classes.

AFTERNOON.

1:00-2:15, Regular Classes.

2:30 Special Program:

Address, The Rural Home and the
Children — William A. McKeever, De-
partment of Philosophy, Kansas State
Agricultural College.

Music, Overture to Merry Wives of
Windsor (Nicplai) — Double piano:
Mrs. Hursh, Mrs. Johrson, Miss
Brooking, Miss Shamel. Organ: Miss
Dunsworth.

Country School Problems — County
Superintendents.

Music, "Illinois."

Organ, Postlude.

EVENING.

9:00, Address — WiLiam A. Jk-
Kecver.

'the meeting was a success. The
ad >rtsses by Prof. McKeever were
abie, helpful, and insi-iiing. The im-
portance of school work in general
and rural school work in particular
was emphasized. Several county
superintendents lent the inspiration
of their presence and suggestions.
Some rural teachers not in attend-
ance at the summer school were pres-
ent, and those in attendance were
present in large numbers. Ali in all
it was a good meeting, and is pro-
phetic of better schools and better
school conditions in the rural com-
munities of the Military Tract.

MEETING OF TRUSTEES

The Trustes of the School met last
week and transacted some impor-
tant business. The resignations of
Miss Atkinson, Miss Fishleigh, and
Miss Kirkpatrick from faculty posi-
tions were accepted. Miss Martha
McLean, assistant in Domestic Sci-
ence, and Miss Lavinia Stinson, sev-
enth grade critic, were each given a
year's leave of absence. Miss Zoe
Bayliss was employed to take
Miss Atkinson's place and Miss Alice
Crabill will take Miss McLean's

ENROLLMENT OF THE SCHOOL
SINCE THE BEGINNING

Nor- Elemen-

mal tary

School School Total

1902-1903 374 160 524

1903-1904 477 IBS M

1904-1905 672 109 781

] 005-11)06 (no sum-
mer school) . . 309 no re'ord

1906-1907 537 220 757

1907-1908 679 212 891

1908-1909 689 211 900

1909-1910 778 182 960

1910-1911 905 187 1092

1911-1912 1145 228 1373

(to July 10.)

place. There are other teachers to
be hired and Mr. Morgan was in-
structed to make selections subject
to the approval of the Board of
Trustees.

The new dormitory for ladies was
located east of the main building
and about in line with it. The ar-
chitect and all others concerned were
much pleased with the location. The
bnilding is to be 175 feet long, about
130 feet wide and in the shape of
the letter E. The plans will be
ready soon and work will be begun
early this autumn. The building is
to cost $75,000.

OPEN COUNTRY CLUB NO. 3

This club was organized the third
week of school and meets on the
campus at the east end of the build-
ing every Thursday evening at 7:00
o'clock. Its officers are as follows:

President — Miss Eula Cordell.

Vice-President — Miss Ada M. Som-
ers.

Secretary — Miss Ve^ta Beckemeyer

Treasurer — Mr. Willard Currie.

Its programs consist of music,
readings, and talks on country school
problems. Considerable interest is
manifested. The talks have been
helpful.

The purpose of the club is to im-
prove country school conditions and
to standardize the one-room country
schools of the Military Tract. There
is hope of success along these lines,
and Open Country Club No. 3 means
to do its part.

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SUMMER SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

1903 161

1904 170

1905 340

1906 No summer school

1907 244

1908 350

1909 349

1910 417

1911 453

1912 (to July 10) 565

The enrollment for the first day of
the summer school this year com-
l>ared with the enrollment for the
first day last year shows an increase
of 59 per cent. The total enrollment
for the summer school to date this
year, compared with the total en-
rollment last year, gives an increase
of 25 per cent. This indicates that
the summer school iss not only grow-
ing in numbers, but that there is a
change taking place in the spirit and
purpose of the school. The large in-
crease in enrollment for the first day
as compared with the increase in
total enrollment means that a larger
number of the summer school stu-
dents are undertaking their studies
with the aim of completing the sum-
mer quarter's work as a part of a
systematic course of study.

LIBRARY NOTES

The library has been appreciated
and used by the people of the Sum-
mer School of 1912. The list below
gives an idea of the number of vol-
umes charged out by students. This
list, however, does not show fully to
what extent it has been used. A very
largo number of people use books
in the reading room that are not
charged out. The library is an in-
dispensable part of the school:

No. Vols. I

June 17 267Uuly

June 18 195 July

June 19 148! July

June 20 120'.Tuly

June 21.
June 22.
June 24.
June 25.
June 27.
June 26.
June 29.

1531 July

127
1 5 4
110
1 19
178
109

June 28 1!

No. Vols.

147

160

187

121

147

129

July 8

July 9

July 10

July 11 140

July
July

.118
.156

Coach Omer of the Northwestern
University Track team visited the
school last Thursday and had a short
conference with the boys.

WHERE THEY WILL TEACH |

The names and addresses of the
summer school students are given
below with ^he work they will do
next year. A few abbreviations
have been made. C. S. means Coun-
try School, H. S., means High School,
Prin. means Principal. The other
contractions will be understood with-
out abbreviation.

Adair, Ethel, C. S Carthage

Adair, S. Q . Quincy

Adams, Gertrude E., 3rd Gd. Quincy
Adkisson, Hazel, C. S. .Swan Creek

Akers, Lcssie, C. S Camp Point

Akers, Edith, C. S Camp Point

Alexander, Minnie, C. S.... Golden

Allison, Margaret Macomb

Altheide, Matilda, 4th Gd... Quincy
Ammer, Ida L., 4th gd . . . . Elvaston
Anderson, Mabel Karr, C. S.Carthage
Anderson, Edna T., C. S

New Windsor

Armour, Mabel, C. S Tennessee

Arning, Julia, 5th Gd Quincy

Asplund, Mary I., C. S Macomb

Athey, Fern A., C. S Lewistown

Awbrey, Maud, C. S .... Keithsburg

Aulgur, Tnez, C. S Macomb

Ausbury, Mary, Normal. .. .Macomb
Ball, Cora J., 5th & 6th Gds

'. . . .Quincy

Balthrope, Elizabeth, 2nd Gd....

Quincy

Barnes, Edna, Primary ... .Raritan

Barnes, Vesta, C. S Hamilton

Barnes, C. T., C. S Canton

Bates, Jennie F., C. S Vermont

Bates, Kathryn M., C. S. . . .Macomb
Eauner, Katherine, C. S.Camp Point

Baxter, Florence, C. S Alsey

Bayless, Albert, C. S Bardolph

Beatty, Helen, 5th Gd Quincy

Beatty, M. E., 8th Gd Quincy

Beckemeyer, Vesta, C. S Quincy

Bess, Wenona E., C. S. . .Kampsville
Bell, Albert, Normal ... .Smithfield

Bell, Gladys, C. S Astoria

Bellinger, Hazel, C. S Alexis

Bellomy, Mona, C. S Good Hope

Bennett, Fay, C. S Bayliss

Beyer, Mayme, C S Cambridge

Bissell, Beulah, C. S Viola

Black, Alice I., 7th -Gd Macomb

Black, Helen, Normal Macomb

Blair, Lee M., H. S Havana

Blohm, Nellie M., C. S. .Beardstown

Boies, Lucie, Normal Macomb

Bowers, Lucy, 1st Gd Quincy

Bowlin, Goldie F., C. S.... Macomb

Bradney, Ruth, C. S Timewell

Branberg, Anna, Inter Gds

Coal Valley

Bred well. Ethel, 1st Gd Canton

Brent, Susie A., 1st Gd Quincy

Briar, Ethel M., C. S Bardolph

Brittain, Elizabeth, 2nd Gd.. Quincy
Brooking, Isabel, Normal. .Macomb
Brooks, R. W., C. S. . . .Stronghurst

Brown, Carl, C. S Vermont

Brown, Josie, C. S Ferris

Browning, Inez, C. S LaHarpe

Buckley, Clara, 3rd & 4th Gds. . .

Moline

Buerkin, Katherine, 5th Gd.. Quincy
Bunch, Rosa Belle, C. S. .Carrollton

Bunting, Lucy, 2nd Gd Quincy

Burkhalter, Blanche, C. S., 1st Gd.

Abingdon

Byrd, Lela, C. S Hamburg

Bywater, Frances E., 1st Gd. . Quincy

Bywater, Ruth, Normal Quincy

Cadogan, Katherine, 8th Gd. Quincy

Callihan, Emma, Prin Macomb

Carroll, Huldah, C. S. . . . Greenbush
Carson, Minnie M., 5, 6, 7, 8th Gds.

Youngstown

Carter, Irma, H. S Astoria

Catlett, Dottie, C. S Fairview

Catlin, Vera, Normal Macomb

Chamberlain, Helen, C. S

Mt. Sterling

Chilberg, Irene C, C. S Ophien

Choate, Stella L., 5, 6 & 7th Gds.

Hamilton

Cleek, Lulu, C. S Mt. Sterling

Conner, Edith, C. S Macomb

Coates, Helen Macomb

Cobb, Grace, C. S Monmouth

Cole, Florence M., Normal .Macomb
Connor, Regina A., C. S.Mt. Sterling

Ccoke, Hazlitt, C. S Aledo

Ccoper, Edith, C. S Monmouth

Copeland, Josephine, C. S.Monmouth

Cordell, Eula E., C. S Cameron

Cordell, Grace, Normal ... .Macomb

Covert, Mary, C. S Littleton

Cox, Pearl, C. S Carthage

Crabill, Alice, Normal Faculty. . .

Macomb

Cratty, Stella, Primary Wataga

Crewes, Frances, H. S Mazon

Cummings, Thomas, C. S Basco

Curry, Marie, 3rd & 5th Gds

Frederick

Curtis, Edna, C. S Bowen

Dague, Mary V., 4th Gd. . . .Danville
Dahlberg, Nannie, C. S....Andover

Danner, Zeta, C. S Astoria

Darke, Christie, Normal .... Macomb

Dennis, Marie M., C. S Baylis

Derrick, Sara Louise, Prin. . .Quincy
Derrick. Ida Alleyne, Prin. . .Quincy

DeWitt, Maude L., C. S Canton

Dickey, Lora, C. S Alexis

Dickhut, Jennie, 3rd Gd Quincy

Dickman, Anna, Village. . .Bradford

Diefendorf, Ethel, C, S Douglas

Dierker, Henry, C. S Plymouth

Ditto, Ethel B., C. S Keithsburg

Dixon. Elsie, C. S Oquawka

Doderlein, Thora W., C. S Avon

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Donaldson, Nellie, C. S Fiatt

Donaldson, Mary, C. S Cuba

Dunn, Nelle, C. S Buda

Dorsett, Mattie, C. S Augusta

Easum,. Dora Clayton

Elder, Media, 2nd Gd Quincy

Ellison, Alice, Normal Macomb

Ellison, Louise, Normal. . . .Macomb
English, Jennie L., 1st to 4th Gds.

Ray

Erwin, George Macomb

Essex, H. Eli, C. S. . . .London Mills
Evans, Bernice, C. S. . . .Prairie City

Evans, Gladys, C. S Canton

Everitt, T. W., Supt LaHarpe

Falkenstein, Ruth, C. S Astoria

Fischer, Doris, 6th Gd Quincy

Fischer, Minnie, 7th Gd Quincy

Fleer, Irene, 7th Gd Quincy

Forbes, Nellie, C. S Cuba

Foster, Ethel Macomb

Foster, William, H. S. . . .Colchester
Fcuts, Augusta, 1st to 4th Gds.. .

Ellisville

Fullmer, E. A., 6th & 7th Gds.. . .

Bentley

Fullmer, Helen, C. S Milan

Fulton, A. Florence Quincy

Garrett, Opal, C. S Smithshire

Garvey, Irene, C. S Elvaston

George, Mae, C. S Alsey

Gesler, Daisy H Macomb

Gheen, Ethel, C. S Neba

Gleason, Catherine, C. S.Mt. Sterling

Goeke, Elsie, C. S Bushnell

Goodwin, Chloe, E., C. S..Rockport
Grady, Bertha, All grades

Kellerville

Graham, Iva, Normal Adair

Graham, Mabel M., 7th & 8th Gds.

Ipava

Graham, Nellie, C. S Adair

Gray, Ethel, C. S Breeds

Gray, Ivah, C. S Gladstone

Green, Jane L., C. S Chrisman

Greuel, Augusta, C. S Macomb

Griffith, Florence, C. S . . . Galesburg
Grote, Augusta, 6th Gd. . Springfield
Guest, Margaret, 5, 6 & 7th Gds.

Kewanee

Gustafson, S. Grace, C. S.Cambridge

Hainline, Mae, C. S Macomb

Hall, Edith E., 6th Gd Quincy

Hall, Damon, H. S Colchester

Hall, Tacie, Normal Macomb

Haney, Nellie, C. S Camden

Harbison, Ruth, C. S.. London Mills
Harding, Howard, Normal. .Macomb
Harding, Frances Maude, 8th Gd.

Quincy

Harl, Jeannette, 5th & 6th Gds.. .

Plymouth

Hartzell, Ruth R., Primary. Carthage

Harris, W. C, H. S New Boston

Harris, H. D., C. S New Boston

Harris, Winnie, C. S Marietta

Harris, Irene, Normal Macomb

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Jared, Jennie L., 7th Gd . . . Roseville
Jarrett, Talitha D., 5th Gd . . .Quincy

Jeffries, Will Marietta

Jones, Edith E., 3d Cd Quincy

Jones, Clarence, Normal . . . Macomb

Johnson, Bessie, C. S Warsaw

Johnson, Erma, C. S Altona

Johnson, Esther, C. S Oneida

Johnson, Emma, C. S. . . .Preemption

Johnson, Leila, C. S Warsaw

Johnson, Grace Adina, C. S

New Windsor

Johnston, Exie, 1st Gd Quincy

Kane, Frank, 7th Gd Pittsfield

Keane, Josephine E., 8th Gd. Quinsy

Kerch, Ivy, C. S Aledo

Kerman, Geo. B., H. S Macomb

Kiem, Edna, C. S Quincy

Kindelsperger, Charity, H. S

Viola

Kirk, Susie, 7th & 8th Gds.. Quincy
Klarner, Christel, 5th Gd. . . .Quincy

Klarner, Julia, 6th Gd Quincy

Knight, Gertrude, C. S

New Philadelphia

Krein, Gertrude, C. S. . . .Monmouth
Kriegshauser, Kathryn, 3d Gd. . . .

Quincy

Lane, Jessie, 3d & 4th Gds. Hamilton

Larson, Albert Colchester

Leach, Paul J., Normal Macomb

Leapley, Jessie, C. S Kellerville

Lee, Meda, C. S Bluff Springs

Lemley, Cora G., 2nd Gd Quincy

Harrison, Gladys, 3rd Gd . . . .Quincy
Hasselbacher, Eva, 1, 2, 3 Gds.

Yates City

Hatchett, Mattie, Normal .... Sciota
Hedgcock, Mary, C. S. . . .Plymouth
Hedgcock, Jessamine, C.S.Plymouth
Hedgcock, Martha E., C. S.Plymouth
Heinzman, Yulah. C. S. . . .Bushnell

Hites, Garnet, Normal Macomb

Hites, Mary, Normal Macomb

Hohl, Lucile, C. S Nauvoo

Hohl, Verna, 1st & 2nd gds. .Nauvoo
Hollirlay, Katherine, 9th gd.. Quincy

Holmes, Albert, H. E Bowen

Hood, Blanche T., C. S Bushnell

Hoskin, Mary E., C. S El Dara

Hott, Maude, C. S Good Hope

Hoyt, Guy M., 8th Gd Canton

Humberd, Hazel, C. S Sciota

Hunsaker, Edna, C. S Liberty

Hunt, Mary Rose, C. S. . . Beardstown

Hunt, Ida, C. S Colchester

Huntley, Mayme, C. S Nauvoo

Hiett, H. C, H. S Kirkwood

Huey, Grant, Normal Macomb

Hulson, Mary, 1, 2, 3 Gds. Colchester

Imes, Ralph, Normal Macomb

Ingersoll, Marie, C. S. . .Green Valley
Ingram, Imogene M., C. S. . . Geneseo
Ireland, Lottie K., C. S. ...Princeton

Irwin, Jennie, C. S Smithfield

Jansen, Adeline, 8th Gd Quincy

McGilllvrajr, Hope, Normal

licKeown, Mayme, C. H.Mt. Htc-rling
McKnight, Elizabeth, 4th & 5th

Gds Quincy

McKown, Mabel, C. B. .New Boston

McMillan, Eva M., H. B Industry

Menke, Mary, 4th Gd Quincy

Meyer, Gertrude, Ind. Gd . . . .Quincy
Meyer, Katrine, .'3rd Gd . . .
Myers, Frank, Student. .. Galesburg
Mercer, Jessie G., 3d Gd. . . Canton
Mickey, Florence, Normal .. Macon

Miller, Myrta, C. S Macomb

Miner, Nellie, Normal .Macomb

Mitchell, Ethelyn L, C. S. Kirkwood
Mixer, Iva L, 5th & 6th Gds. Clayton
Monckton, Cathryn A., C. S

Mt. Sterling

Monninger, Hazel, Normal .. Macomb
Montgomery, Mary, C. S. .Monmouth
Moody, Mrs. Martha, 8th Gd

Roodhouse

Moore, Marion, 4th Gd. .Rock Island

Moore, Helen, C. S Macomb

Moore, Mildred, 3rd & 4th Gds. . .

Vermont

Morey, Clara Macomb

Moss, Pearl, 1st & 2nd Gds

Colchester

Mullen, Georgia Macomb

Mummey, Nida Canton

Lewis, Lily, Normal Macomb

Lewis, Ella, Primary Quincy

Little, Norene, C. S Pontoosuc

Logan, Nora G., C. S Lomax

Louderback, Florence, C. S

Sheldon's Grove

Lord, Hattie A., C. S Bradford

Lucas, Ruth, 6, 7, & 8th Gds..Moline
Lucas, Mattie, 1st & 2nd Gds. . . .

Prairie City

Lucas, Leola, 8th & 9th Gds

Timewell

Lucas, Ethel, C. S Macomb

Lukens, Mabel, 2nd Gd. . .Monmouth

Macfall, Rose, 4th Gd Quincy

Mangion, Alice W., C. S. . . .Dahinda
Mangion, Kathryn, C. S. . . .Dahinda
Marple, Anna M., C. S. .Illinois City

Marple, Frances, C. S Joy

Mayfield, Jessie, C. S Media

Martin, Jessie, 6th Gd Quincy

Mason, A. Ruthe, C. S. . . .Plymouth
May, Katherine, Primary. ... Quincy
Mayfield, Leota, C. S. . .Stronghurst

McAtee, Leta, C. S Paloma

McAvoy, M. Jennie, C. S... Augusta
McCollom, Florence, 6th & 7th

Gds Carthage

McCord, Beulah, C. S. . . .Colchester

McCreary, Eula Carthage

McCreary, Twila, Primary

Smithshire

McDaniel, Ray, C. S Plymouth

McDonald, Robert, Student .Macomb
McDowell, Elva C, Primary

Murphy, Lulu, 2nd Gd

Tawas City, Mich

Musgrove, Lestine, C. S.East Moline

Nelson, Anna M., C. S Loraine

Nelson, Ellen M., C. S....Kewanee
Nelson, Hazel, C. S. ...Lynn Center
Newbery, Mary, H. S. . . . Woodhull
Newell, Ora, 5th & 6th Gds....Joy
Newell, Martha, 5th & 6th Gds. . .

Keithsburg

Noland, Hazel, C. S LaHarpe

Norton, E., Jr., Student . .Galesburg
Norton, Lucinda M., Student....

Macomb

Odeman, Clara L., H. S. . .Neponset
Olson, Evelyn, C. S. .. .Cambridge

Owens, Mary V., 4th Gd Canton

Patch, Mamie, C. S Smithshire

Payne, Cecile, C. S Bushnell

Pemberton, Bess, C. S Bushnell

Persline, Mildred, C. S. . . .Oquawka
Peterson, Nettie, 1st Gd....Quincy
Peterson, Agnes, 5th, 6th ,& 7th

Gds Alpha

Peterson, Maude, C. S... Monmouth
Pierson, Edna, C. S. . .New Windsor

Pierce, Daisy, Normal Macomb

Pine, George, C. S. . . .New Windsor

Pitt, Lula, C. S Ferris

Poffenbarger, Nina, C.S.New Boston

Pollard, Viola Pontoosuc

Postlewait, Delpha Alexis

Pratt, Owen, Student. .. .Monmouth
Purdum, Gladys, Normal. . .Macomb

Rauch, Oliver A., C. S Astoria

Ralph, Lucy, th Gd Quincy

Randolph, Harriet, Student. Macomb

Ratcliffe, Mary, C. S Canton

Ray, Laura, C. S Roseville

Rebman, Blanche, Primary . Frederick

Rexroat, Lulu, Normal Macomb

Rice, Beryl, C. S Dalas City

Richardson, Edith, 1st & 2d Gds.

Plymouth

Rinehart. Harriet, Normal ... Sciota

Roberson, Verne, C. S Hermon

Royer, Pauline Baders

Ruddell, Elizabeth IMacomb

Ruddell, Marion, Primary ... .Perry
Ruskamp, Josephine, 6th Gd. Quincy

Russell, Flora, C. S Macomb

Rutledee, Gwendolyn, 5th GdQuincy
Ryan, Catherine V., 1st Gd. .Quincy

Ryan, Helen M., th Gd Quincy

Salisbury, G. W., Student. . .Urbana

Sanders, Velva, C. S Carthage

Sanders, Ruth Canton

Scott, Mabel, C. S Neponset

Schwartz, Mrs. Jennie A., 2nd Gd.

Knoxville

Schaefer, Elsie, 1st Gd Quincy

Schaefer, Nellie, 3rd Gd. .. .Quincy
Self ridge, Lucy May, C. S.Good Hope
Shanahan, Johanna, Prin. .. .Quincy
Shively, Louise, Primary. .Bardolph

Sigler, E. Lyle, C. S Rushville

Simpson, Roy, H. S Tennessee

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Simpson, Olive, C. S Augusta

Smith, Earl J., Prin Canton

Smith, Lloyd, Marietta

Smith, Lester C, Prin Canton

Smith, Hallie, C. S Astoria

Smith, Isabelle, C. S Viola

Smith, Maggie F., 1st & 4th Gds.

Rockport

Smick, Audre, 5th & 6th Gds. .Aledo

Sowers, Ada, C. S Wyoming

Sorensen, Alfred, H. S. .New Boston
Spahr, William, Normal. . .Macomb

Spangler, Allie Bardolph

Spangler, Gaily Bardolph

Sprague, Bertha, C. S Sheffield

Springer, Lois, C. S Galesburg

Stuart, Ethel L., Normal. . .Macomb

Stevenson, Clem, C. S Gerlaw

Stookey, Hazel, Normal. . . .Macomb
Stinson, Dorothy, Normal. .Macomb
Strickler, Louise C, 3d Gd. . . .

Farmington

Stedman, Edna B., C. S. .Swan Creek
Stephens, Ross, Normal. .. .Macomb
Stewart, Justin A., H. S. .Plymouth
Stoops, Gladys, 2nd Gd. Hannibal, Mo
Stanley, Elvira, C. S....Good Hope
Stevenson, Clementine, C. S.. Ferris

Stipe, Alma E., C. S Tioga

Sullivan, Irene, Normal ... .Macomb
Sullivan, Mary, Normal .... Macomb
Summers, Jessie E., C. S. . . .Quincy
Swearingen, Ralph V., C. S.Littleton
Switzer, Ralph B., H. S.... LaHarpe
Swag, Mrs. Lynn R., 4th & 5th

Gds Galesburg

Swanson, Norman, C. S Altona

Swenson, Greta J., 5th & 7th

Gds Elvaston

Switzer, Louise, C. S Macomb

Switzer, Elsie M., C. S Macomb

Swisher, Ida T., C. S Rushville

Swanson, Flora, C. S. .. .Colchester
Swearingen, Mrs. Ralph, C. S. ... .

Littleton

Terpening, Mabel, C. S... Monmouth

Thayer, Grace, C. S Roseville

Thietten, Lola, 6th & 7th Gds...

i Loraine

Tibbets, Brenhilde M., C. S

Mason City

Thirtyacre, Pearl, C. S Quincy

Thomason, Emma, 7th Gd... Quincy
Thomas, Clair J., Student. . .Urbana
Thompson, Mabel, C. S. .Prairie City
Thompson, Esther, 7th & 8th Gds.

Camp Point

Thompson, Ethel, C. S Macomb

Townley, Wayne, Normal. .Macomb

Upham, Alice, Normal Macomb

Van Antwerp, Maude L., H. S. . .

Brooklyn

Vance, Inez, C. S Augusta

VanEtten, Reba, Normal . . . Macomb

Vaughn, Helen, C. S Galesburg

Venable, Lucy, C. S. .. .Keithsburg
Volk, Maude, 1st to 9th Gds. Oneida

I6 7

Vosmer, Lillie M., 1st Gd. . . .Quincy
Wade, Hazel, 1, 2,&3rd Gds... Lima

Wade, Jessie, C. S Tiskilwa

Walk, Beulah M., 1st to 4th Gds.

Winchester

Walter, Clark, Student. ... Bushnell

Walters, Addie, C. S Cuba

Waschke, Bertha H., C. S. .Reynolds

Watson, Wade E Macomb

Webb, Marie, C. S Paloma

Weber, Rose, C. S Astoria

Welborn, Freda, Normal. .. Macomb
Welch, Gladys, C. S... London Mills
Westerdale, Grace, C. S. .. .Victoria
Wherley, Homer L., Student. Astoria
White, Katherine, C, S. .Camp Point

White, Elsie, Normal Macomb

Whitehead, Cora, Inter. Gds

Huntsville

Whitehouse, Leora, H. S.. Plymouth

Wick, Violet, C. S Oneida

Wiegand, Dollie, C. S Biggsville

Wiggins, Frances G., C. S. . . .Milan
Willard, Robert, C. S .Hollowayville
Williams, Susie E., Normal. Macomb
Williams, Rena C, C. S. . Colchester
Williams, Sallie R., 8th Gd.. Quincy
Williamson, Florence, Student...

( Wataga

Wilson, Forrest, Normal. . .Macomb
Wilson, Earl, 7th, 8th, & 10th Gds.

Sciota

Wilson, Chloe E., Normal. .Macomb
Wilson, Jeannette, C. S . . Colchester

Wilson, Margaret E., C. S

.London Mills

Wilson, Grace, Normal .... Macomb

Wilson, Mary, C. S Lewistown

Winters, Ruth S., C. S... Plymouth
Winters, Delia A., C. S. . . .Plymouth
Winters, Bertha L., C. S.Plymouth
Windisch, Mae, Primary. Bishop Hill

Wirt, Mabel, Student Alpha

Wise, Carl T., H. S Quincy

Wise, Mrs. C. T Quincy

Womelsdorf, Henriette F., 2nd Gd.

Quincy

Womelsdorf, Bertha M., 3rd Gd.

Quincy

Yaap, Minnie, Normal Macomb

Yard, Vera, C. S Macomb

Young, Le Verne, C. S. . . .Colchester
Young, Zola, F., C. S. . . .Colchester

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VOLUME X

MACOMB ILL., SEPT. 26, 1912.

NUMBER I

MOTORCYCLE MIKE (GINNINGS)

A '-> 1 1 c f p a t io h

A MEMORIAL TO ALFRED BAYLISS

Tke Alumni and Teachers of the Second Ward

School at Sterling Dedicate a Sun Dial

to Memory of Mr. Bayllss.

A little booklet has come to our
notice concerning the dedication ex-
ercises of a memorial to the late Al-
fred Bayliss, held by the alumni and
teachers of the Second Ward School
at Sterling, Illinois. This is the school
of which 'Sir. Bayliss was principal
for twenty years, or from the
year 1874 to 1894. The memorial
in the form of a beautiful gran-
ite sun dial which was placed in the
school yard of the Second Wai\l
building. Mr. Bayliss did very much
for this school and for the town dur-
ing his twenty years stay there. He
placed the Second Ward High School
on the accredited list of normal
schools, colleges, and universities.
He also was instrumental in bring-
ing about the building of a splendid
township high school at that place.

The presentation speech was made
by w. P. Utley of the class of '7 5,
and the speech of acceptance by W.
X. Haskell of the class of '80, and
now secretary of the board or educa-
tion. An address was also given by
F. G. Blair, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Numerous other

(Continued on page 3.)

RECEPTION TO NEW STUDENTS

Faculty and Old Students Give Reception to
New Students in the Gymnasium.- In-
formal Program Given.

Friday evening, September 20, the
reception to new students was given in
the gymnasium by the faculty and old
students. Quite a large number were
present and every one felt better acqu-
ainted and more at home after these
two hours of pleasant association. Aft-
er refreshments of lemonade and waf-
ers had been served a short informal
program was given with Mr. Dickerson
presiding. Miss Sarah Stocking gave a
delightful reading entitled "The Old
Man". Miss Lora Wilson spoke of the
Y.W.C.A. and its work. Mr. Ther-
on Chaney spoke of the Y.M.C.A, in
a similar way. Mr.Onno Walters gave
a short talk in behalf of the Platonians
as did Mr. Harlow Wyne for the Em-
sonians and Miss Grote for the Ama-
teur Club. Miss Davis gave the orator-
ical side of school life, and Mr. Wal-
rath and Miss Lamkin, the athletic
side. Mr. Morgan then admonished us
to see that these various activities
were not given precedence over our
class work. Then came more refresh-
ments until time for the lights to blink
and all went home feeling that they
had enjoyed a very pleasant evening.

THE THREE NEW FACULTY MEN

The New Extension Department Has Been Or-
ganized with Mr. E. E. Van Cleve
as Director.

On August 30th last, Prof. J. T.
Johnson, who has been head of the
departments of biology and agricul-
ture for the past six years, resigned,
to accept a position as Dean of the
Faculty of the Kent State Normal
School, at Kent, Ohio. At a meet-
ing of the board of trustees on Sep-
tember 11th, Charles W. Finley was
elected as his successor.

Mr. Finley is a graduate of the
Eastern Illinois State Normal School
?nd has a Master's degree in science
from the University of Chicago. In
addition to this he has done nearly
all the work for his Doctor's degree.
This he will finish in the next two or
three summers. Mr. Finley comes
to his work here highly recom mend-
ed by Dt. Lord, president of the East-
ern Illinois Normal School, President
Cooper, of the Mankato Normal
School of Minnesota; Dr. Caldwell,
of the Department of Botany and
Natural History of the University of
Chicago, and by Dr. Judd, who is Di-
rector of the School of Education of
the University of Chicago. Mr. Fin-
ley has had wide experience in the
various phases of school work in
the State, and is taking the work up
with vigor and decision.

While the school regrets very
much to lose the services of Profes-
sor Johnson, it feels that it has se-
cured a valuable man in his stead.

At the same meeting the Board ap-
pointed Mr. Rupert R. Simpkins as
Head of the Department of Education
and Director of the Training School.
He succeeds Mr. Morgan, who was
recently elected to the principalship.

Mr. Simpkins has his Bachelor's
and Master's degrees from the Uni-
versity of Indiana, and has complet-
ed all of his work for his Doctor's
degree in the University of Chicago,
except his thesis. During his work
there he was a Fellow in the Depart-
ment of Education. Mr. Simpkins
has had a wide experience in the
public schools of Indiana and Illi-

(Continued on page 3.)

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School has opened again with many
new faces around. This first issue of
the Courier most heartily greets them
all. The Courier is here to serve
new students as well as old. To do this
we must have the hearty cooperation
of both old andnew students in subscrip-
tions and also literary contributions.
Any one who can draw a good cartoon
or write something of interest is invited
to do so and hand to the editor or some
other member of the Courier staff.
The staff will try and with the help of
others can make this year's Courier
the best which this school has ever
seen.

This Normal school would not be on
the footing it is today if it did not ad-
vertise to some extent. Very near all
of the activities at school are advertis-
ed extensively. It even proves profit-
able for the Courier to advertise. Also
the Athletic and Oratorical associa-
tions. Some of the leading merchants
in town also believe in advertising and
you will notice some ads in the Couri-
er from time to time. These merchants
are reliable business men of Macomb
and they will treat you right in order
to keep up their reputation gained thru
advertising.

Moral: Subscribe for the Courier
and read the ads.

Miss Davis hands in this interesting
bit of suggestive material from the
September number of the English

Journal.

A required course of two
hours of regular oral expression
work throughout the fir it year of
high school would prove of inesti-
mable value. It would srve much
to put dynamic power by this
means into the very beginning of
high ochool work.

More time should be devot-
ed to the subject of oral reading
in the normal schools, so that
teachers would go out enabled to
awaken through their own read-
ing, the interest of the student.

Have you joined the Y. M. C. A? If
not why not ? The Y. M. C. A. is an
organization for every boy in school.
It is not composed of any select bunch
and is glad to welcome one and all. Its
motto is "The most good to the most
yeople all the time". Every effort is
made by the officers and members of
the Y. M. C. A. to make the meetings
as interesting as possible. Prominent
business men in all vocations of life will
be heard throughout the year. Some of
the meetings willbe made student meet-
ings alone. Every man can take part or
have something to do if he expresses a
willingness to do so. The meetings are
held every Tuesday night in the Music
Room at 6:45. We get out soon enough
for you to prepare your lessons for the
next day. Corne and be a member.

SOME THINGS YGU MIGHT BE
INTERESTED IN

Y. M. C. A.

Y. W. C. A.

Platonians

Emersonians

Amateurians

Orchestra

Foot ball

Basket ball

Base ball

Track

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The Senior Play

Inter-class Gontest

Boy's Glee Club

Oratory

There is surely something in this

list which will meet the inclinat;o
every student. Every one should see
that he takes active part in cr.e
more of these various school i
ties.

HE WENT RIGHT ON

Just a week ago today Mr. Ginnings
was coming to school on a bicycle. Ey
some unkind act of providence a small
stick became entangled in the wheel
which caused it to be stopped rather
suddenly. Now Mr. Ginnings was sub-
ject, as are all other bodies, to a pecu-
liar physical law known as "inertia",
So instead of stopping with the "bike",
he went on over the handle bars.He re-
ports no injuries further than breaking
the crystal in his watch which he says
will cause him to be out anywhere
from twenty five cents to a dollar.

OUR EXCHANGES

The Courier has a number of ex- i

changes on its list. These are all live '
high school or college papers full fromf-j

cover to cover with interesting reading I
concerning the various student activi-HI

ties of every high school and college I
in Northern and Western Illinois.

These papers are placed on the ex- '

change shelf which is in the northeast 1

corner of the library. If you wish to )
see what other schools are doing along

the same lines that we are interested I
in or some good jokes or stories go to
the exchange shelves.

The total enrollment up tc Tuesday, I
September 24, was 399. Of this total
130 are boys and 269 girls. Better I
be careful boys.

We are in receipt of an interesting I

letter from Mr. W. 0. Pendarvis, '11, J

who is now teaching in the Philippine I
Islands. It is entitled "Five Days in

Japan," and will be published in part '
next week.

The Courier has ordered twenty
dollars worth of new type and some
very artistic border designs. This,
when received, will add very much
to the already fine appearance of the
Courier.

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THE STANDARD OF ANY SCHOOL IS JUST WHAT THE STUDENTS MAKE IT.

NEW FACULTY MEN

(Continued from page I.)

nols, having had about seven years
experience in Indiana and five years
in Illinois. He came to us from But-
ler College, where he was Assistant
Professor of Education. This, added
to his work as Grade Supervisor and
Superintendent of Schools, makes
him a man who is fully fitted for the
position which he has taken.

Mr. Simpkins comes very highly
recommended by those with whom
he worked, both in Indiana Univer-
sity and the University of Chicago.
Besides these, the various school of-
ficials with whom he did his teach-
ing and supervising, speak very
highly of him as an adminstrator.
The work of the Training School is
already showing signs of his ability
as an organizer, and we predict that
his influence will soon show itself
in the common schools of this dis-

The new department which has
been organized in connection with
the school is known as the Extension
Department. Mr. E. E. Van Cleve
has been appointed to take charge of
this. He has been a teacher and
superintendent in the southern part
of Illinois for the last twenty years,
and has had an experience which
covers practically all of the public
school problems which may arise.
He has his Bachelor's and Master's
desrees from the University of Illi-
nois, and has done some additonal
work. He comes to us highly re-
commended by Dr. Bagley and Dr.
Hollister of the University of Illi-
nois. He has done quite a little of
his work there with Dr. Bagley, and
Dr. Hollister, who is the high school
visitor for Illinois, has observed
much of his work first hand. There
are a great number of county and
city superintendents of the southern
part of the State who have testified
to his strength as an educator. He
has begun his work and has been in
the field this week. On Tuesday eve-
ning he met the teachers of Can-
ton and organized an Extension class
at which fifty enrolled. On Wednes-
day he was at Peoria, where he or-
ganized a similar class with about
forty teachers as members. The re-
ports that come in from the various
places where Mr. Van Cleve has been
at work assure the success of this
undertaking, and we feel that his ef-

forts wiU ad 1 much to the usefulness
of the Normal School and be a great
help to the teachers of the Military
Tract.

MEMORIAL TO ALFRED BAYLISS

(Continued from page 1.)

short talks were given by alumnae
and teachers, among them being one
by Prof. Hursh of this school,.

Mr. Bayliss was preeminently a
lover of children. In this booklet is
a facsimile of a copy of a poem
made by Mr. Bayliss when superin-
tendent of the Second Ward School
for the children to memorize. The
first two stanzas are engraved on the
dial. The complete poem follows:

TO-DAY.

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;

Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

Out of eternity

This new day is born;
Into eternity

At night will return.

Behold it aforetime

No eye ever did;
So soon it forever

From all eyes is hid.

Here hath been dawning

Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it

Slip useless away?

TEN YEARS OLD

Monday, September 23, was the
tenth birthday of this schoo'. At
present there are only four members
In the faculty who were members of
the original faculty. These are Miss
Dunbar, Miss Hamilton, Prof. Hursh
and Prof. Drake. Therefore, in
chapel Monday morning, Mr. Morgan
apprised us of the foregoing facts,
and called on Mr. Hursh to give a
short talk.

When the students and faculty
gathered September 23, 1902, for
regisration, the campus was mostly
made up of sticky yellow clay. The
building was finished only on the first
floor and the gymnasium was used
as a study hall and assembly
room. All the classes were held on
the first floor, both normal and train-

ing school classes. The enrollment
numbered about 150, most of the
students being comparatively young.
A few, however, were of the normal
school class, having come with Prof.
Drake from Moline. During th's
time the building was in the process
of completion, except when delayed
by the legislature refusing to grant
an appropriation needed to complete
the building. By the end of the
third year two or three rooms were
finished on the third floor through
the genrosity of Capt. Albert Eads,
who gave enough money to finish
them. This gave some much needed
room, as the enrollment was grad-
ually increasing all the time. The
building was completed during the
fourth year, and the school was
therefore placed on a new and more
solid footing and from that time on
has grown steadily to what it is
now. Much was done by Mr. Bay-
liss to improve the course and make
it is what it is today.

After Mr. Hursh's talk the ex-
ercises were fittingly closed by sing-
ing the normal song.

HUMMING BIRDS

Mr. Bassett, who is quite a lover of
birds, tells us that now is the best time
to study the humming bird. As many
as half a dozen can be seen at times
buzzing over the bed of salvia at the
east end of the building. Mr. Bassett
makes the statement that many people
have never seen a real hummingbird,
but have been led to believe that
the large hawk moth is one. They
will be seen for only a few days more
or until the first frost, so that now is
the best time imaginable to observe
these tiny creatures of the feathery
tribe.

Circuit court is now in session
down town, and many of the stu-
dents of the civic class (History 8)
have taken advantage of the oppor-
tunity offered to see the workings
of the court.

Paul White, who was a student
here during the year of 1910-11, was
seen among us Friday. He was on
his way to Northwestern University,
where he has been attending school
the past two years.

THE WESTERN COURIER

The V
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a! Noi li, al, UHl

aat nem

: therein If tfee !a'
tut too

This £an.e of all college gi

dropped at the I. S. N. D. I

;i-o, because it nraa thought that tb<

ulting from the v
i kighed the good. Now it is ■een i:
an entirely different light; all o
which verifies the statement that yo;
ctn't keep a good thing down.

We are glad for this, a:
tend to the I. S. X. U. b*-st wish*
for a successful football season.

If an automobile can go a mile
how far can Trego?

P. D. ROARK,

Prescription Druggist

NORTH SIDE SQUARE,

Macomb Illinois

DR. O. H. PIPER,

Dentist

I. O. O. F. BUILDING,
North Sld« Squar«.

AFIRE

Tuesday evening, September 17,
about 9:30, the students and citizens
living near the Normal were called out
by an alarm of fire. It proved to be
Mr. Drake's barn which was burning,
and the fire had gotten under
such headway that the barn could
not be saved when the fire depart-
ment arrived. Quite a bit of hay
was burned but fortunately there was
no live stock in the barn at the time.
Water was thrown on all nearby build-
ings which was in danger of burning
because of flying sparks and shingles.
It is reported that the building was ful-
ly insured.

FOOT BALL

The sound of the bouncing pig-
skin is again in the air. The veter-
ans' suits have been taken down
from their hooks and are once more
seen upon the sturdy form of the
gridiron stars. The air is becoming
crisp and clear, and the spirit of
lair rivalry is being revived. The
normal team will be composed most-
ly of new men this year. Only two
or three "W" men are in school and
some of them have signified their
intentions of staying out of the
game. Yet the new material prom-
ises to be good and is not without
some little experience. The field
has been laid off and new goals put
in according to the new ruling and
everything is ready for steady prac-
tice. The team has new suits and
with two weeks' of practice will be
ready for the referee's whistle Sat-
urday, Oct. 5, when Monmouth
high school lines up against the lo-
cals. Will you be there? Come and
root for the home team. The com-

plete .schedule of garnet will be an-
nounced next week.

Perhaps you have sejn some of
the students on the campus with a
cone-shaped, net-like Contrivance
and you wondered what i\ could be.
Perhaps you thought they were
chasing illusions as phantoms or
perhaps trying to sift the air. How-
ever, they were confining their la-
bors to things less imaginary as
they were collecting specimens for
Mr. Finley's zoological class.

The Courier is now in the midst
of printing a number of outlines for
the extension work. These are in
booklet form, there being four diff-
erent ones and 2,000 copies of each,
making 8,000 copies in all. It id
needless to say that the Courier
pressman is doing a fine job, and it
certainly speaks well for the Cour-
ier and the grade of work it does.

We are glad to say that Illustrator
ratlin is back on the job, and we
shall have the pleasure of seeing
many of his interesting cartoons
throughout the year. Watch for
them.

Miss Florence Logan of last year's
Junior class, sends for the Courier
and says that she is enjoying her
work in the Keithsburg schools.

Mr. Lloyd Card of the Academic
class, '12, is principal of the New
Canton schools.

Mr. Guy Hoyt, '12, last year's
editor of the Courier, and Mr. Lester
Smith, '12, are teaching in the Can-
ton schools.

Mr. Alfred Sorenson, '11, ; s prin-
cipal at New Boston, Illinois.

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VOLUME X

MACOMB. ILL., OCT. 3, 1912.

NUMBER

Y. W. C. A. TAKING ACTIVE
PART IN THE SCHOOL LIFE

While playing golf Mr. Finlay
stopped to rest.

This Organization Is Working for the Best

Interests ot Every Girl

in School.

The newness of the school life and
the novelty have worn off. The organ-
izations have presented their work
and secured new members. From
this time on, there is no difference
made between old and new members,
but each and every one in any organ-
ization in school should be working for
the betterment of the organization to
which they have pledged their support.
The Young Women's Christian
Association realizes this and intends
to keep on working, as it has begun, in
and for the interests of every girl in
school.

Our morning prayer meetings begin
at 7:50 every morning.

Leaders for the week:

Friday Oct. 4, Hazel Hurlbutt.

Monday Oct. 7, Ruth Robertson.

Tuesday Oct. 8, Harriet Snodgrass.

Wednesday Oct. 9, Hazel Hoxworth

Thursday Oct. 10, Helen Miner.

Friday Oct. 1 1 , Gladys Leighty.

Our next regular meeting will con-
sist of the regular devotional exercises
led by Helen Holiday. Afterwards the
committees will have their regular busi-
ness meetings in which they will pre-
pare the budgets and policies for the
year. In two weeks, we hope to have
an open meeting to which the whole
school will be welcome, and at which
our Geneva delegates will give a full
report.

GOVERNOR DENEEN'S VISIT

Governor Deneen came through
Macomb Thursday afternoon on a
campaign tour. His special train ar-
rived at 2:05 and left at 2: 5 0. He
was accompanied by his staff of
state officials, several of whom made
speeches after the speech by the gov-
ernor. Because of his interest in
this normal school, and because of

AMASS MEETING OF

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Oct. 5 — Monmouth H. S. on Nor-
mal field.

Oct. 12 — Galesburg H. S. on Nor-
mal field.

Nov. 9 — Quincy H. S. on Normal
field.

Nov. 23 — St. Albans Military Acad-
efy at Knoxville.

Nov. 28 — Rock Island H. S. on
Normal field.

This schedule is subject to change
at any time. October 26 and Novem-
ber 16 are open dates, and Manager
Black is trying to get good games
for both days. This is a heavy
schedule, and the team should de-
serve the support of every student ai
these games.

the fact that he was largely instru-
mental in getting an appropriation
to complete this building, classes
were dismissed at 1:55. Regular
class work was continued from the
3:10 period. Many of the students
availed themselves of the opportuni-
ty to hear what Governor Deneen
had to say concerning present cam-
paign issues.

Will Be Held Saturday Evening In the Gym-
nasium to Celebrate the Victory
over Monmouth.

Saturday evening, there will be a
mass meeting in the Gymnasium of
the Athletic Association. Mr. Walrath
says we are to celebrate the victory
over Monmouth High School. Of
course if such a thing were possible as
our going down to defeat, we could
then discuss plans as to how to win the
rest of the games. Refreshments will
be served in the Domestic Science
room. Every member of the association
is urged to be present to help boost
the team.

JAPANESE PRINTS

Monday and Tuesday, Mr. A.
Akamatsu of Basamport, Japan, was
here exhibiting a number of Japanese
prints. These prints were painted by
the students in various art schools in
Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Akamatsu sold
quite a number of prints to the students
while here, and Wednesday he exhib-
ited them at the Hotel Pace, Mr
Akamatsu is a graduate of the Colorado
State College and will take Post Grad-
uate work in the University of Wiscon-
sin after Christmas. Up to Christmas
he will exhibit the prints at various
colleges. He goes from here to Car-
thage College where he will remain the
rest of the v/eek.

The first issue of the Canton Pen-
nant has arrived and is certainly worth
perusing. It is a live up-to-date little
paper and reflects the spirit of the
school. We are pleased to note that
the position of critic is being filled by
Mr. Guy Hoyt who is teaching eighth
grade History. Mr. Hoyt was editor of
the Courier last year and judging by
his work in that capacity, he will make
an efficient critic.

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POLITICS

Today is a day of politics. They
are playing a preeminent part in the
activities of the world today. They
can, and are to a great extent, used
for the benefit of the masses. When
used in this way, politics tend to-
ward progress in all branches of in-
dustry and government. On the oth-
er hand, politics may exert a very
evil influence. They are often used
as a means to gain an end by certain
unscrupulous individuals or organi-
zations. Then it is that the evil
which may or may not result from
politics bespeaks the man or organi-
zation who plays the game. Then it
is that the mass -of the people *s
harmed in order that one lone per-
son or organization may be bene-
fited.

Politics may be of a national
character, of a state character, or of
a character belonging to the smaller
units of government. In either case
there are men who make it their
profession to play the game of poli-
tics who are known as professional
politicians. Their manipulation of
the political machine generally re-
sults in harm to those most concern-
ed and in good to the particular in-
dividual or the machine with which
he may be allied. Whether or not
the professional should be upheld in
his work may be decided by the read-
er in sympathy with his own views.

As politics may be used for the
benefit or detriment of the state or
nation, so may they be used in tho
school.

In many schools there are certain

students who play the part of pro-

onal politicians in order that

they may secure the benefits for

i : Uvea or some organization in
which they are Interested. It-
is lor y-ou who are acquainted with
conditions here in school to d< 'i le
whether this is applicable in our own
ca.se. Then comes the question, Is
school politics beneficial to the school
in general? Have there been any
specific instances where school poli-
tics resulted in harm to the institu-
tion? Of course, there are excep-
tions. But as a general rule the
harm outweighs the good. This is
an important question in the lives of
schools today, and it should be dealt
with in such a manner as to exclude
favoritism and give the work to the
man best fitted for that particular
work.

THE LIBRARY

The library is one part of the
school which is maintained for con-
stant use. Many students take ad-
vantage of that privilege, others
have not, while some are known to
abuse it. A man's degree of knowl-
edge may be greatly heightened if he
uses the library in the right way. If
he does no more than read the daily
papers or the magazines he is en-
abled to a great extent to converse
intelligently concerning the progress
of the world in science, literature
and arts. The library habit is one
which anyone can profitably acquire
and which will prove an asset
through life.

ORCHESTRA

Miss Shamel has the orches-
tra organized and is now holding
regular rehearsals. Quite a number
of students responded to the call for
musicians to help in this interesting
activity. Last year's orchestra was
exceptionally good, and this one
promises to be better. We doubt not
but that we shall hear from it in
chapel in a few days. At least we
hope so.

Found — One football captain who
was thought to have gotten into the
lost, strayed, or stolen class beyond
recovery. We welcome "Si" back
and wish him the best of success in
piloting the 1912 football team to
victory.

There was a young fellow named

Gary,
Who foil in love with a fairy,

But the tales that he told,

Of her were so bold,
That they sounded to us very scary.

ATiiLLITiCS

One of the popu
izations of the Normal is the Athlet-
ic Association, to which all stu

clong by the payment of a
small fee to the treasurer. The or-
ganization has high ideals of sport
and sportsmanship, an-;
the social as well as I

ts of mass and team games. In
the conduct of the association's work
the faculty unite with stiidenrs by
becoming active members and ap-
pointingarepresentativeon the board
of control. In recognition of the
the worth of directed athletics the
trustees of the school have from
time to time appropriated money for
equiping the athletic field and track,
tennis courts, basket ball and volley
ball courts, etc. The Association
aims to promote every kind of ath-
letic endeavor which interests its
members and is at the same time
worth while. Teams in football, vol-
ley ball, basket ball, ba«e ball, and
track are placed in friendly compe-
tition with neighboring schools and
interclass games are numerous as
well as exciting. It is not expected
that the benefits of the games shall
be confined to the few, but the physi-
cally and mentally, as well as moral-
ly, most fit, are likely to represent
the school in contests most often.
Each member is eligible to try out
for the teams, and several teams in
each game usually give opportunity
for all interested to take part. The
attempt is made to conduct games
suitable for all students. Privileges
of membership in this organization
include admission to all interclass
and interschool contests. It is these
several contests which do most to
unite the student body and bring
them to a feeling of loyalty and
pride in the Normal School.

The crowd comes into the grand
stand to cheer the best efforts of the
teams, to sing school songs and
"yell" school yells together, to en-
thuse over skillful plays, and to re-
new enthusiasm for other games
which may pass by the name of la-
bor. There is nothing quite so ex-
hilirating as a good team game.

However, the best things are for
those who get into the game instead
of remaining spectators, providing
they have the decision, the tenacity,
the self-control, and the industry to
"stick to it" all through practices
and preliminaries Tell me how he

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I Ask No Better Monument to My Memory than the Life of a Little Child I Have Taug

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FIVE DAYS IN JAPAN |

By Wilbur O. Pendarvis

BBHUBU

For ten days we had plowed the
peaceful waves of the seemingly
boundless Pacific without sight or
sign of land. We had silently sped
over glassy seas, leaving a zigzag
path for miles in our wake; we had
run through a few brisk showers
where nature was wasting 'her efforts
by pouring fresh water back into the
salt: we had crossed the date line
from the far West into the far Bast,
but for all that we could tell we
might have been the sole inhabitants
of that boundless universe with its
rotating blue fbove and its rolling
blue beneath.

But the scene was changed. The
commander's noon report showed us
only 205 miles out of Yokahoma. A
couple of hours later we sighted a
big sailing vessel coming in from the
northwest loaded with lumber from
Vancouver. That evening we had
our farewell dinner, for on the mor-
row two-thirds of our jolly crowd
were to leave us to scatter out into
Asia as residents or tourists. Every-
body was anxious to sight land. The
captain promised that the light at
t'he southern extremity of Tokyo
Gulf would be visible about ten
o'clock. We crowded the forward
rail on the boat deck in eager anti-
cipation.

Surely that grizzled old Italian
who trod the prow of the ancient
Santa Maria on the October night
that made him famous could not
have watched more eagerly for the
distant torch of the red man than we
did for the friendly gleam from the
yellow man's shores. At 9:30 it had
not appeared; at 9:45 and at 9:50
there was nothing ahead but the
dark, dull outline of water; but sud-
denly, within five minutes of ten, it
burst into view, a clear, strong,
steady light that played peek-a-boo
over the tops of the waves for a
while, then rose into constant view
and gradually swung around to the
star' oard. It was an unmistakable
rroof of land, of civilization beyond
t>.e Pacific.

An hour later t)he ent're starboard
horizon was a mass of tiny twin-
kling, disappearing, half-imaginary
as illusionary as the stars of

the Milky Way. They were from a
Japanese fishing fleet miles off the
coast, busy hauling in the fish at-
tracted by the light of their torches
— a portion of Japan's three mil-
ions who live in their little boats on
the water, making their meagre liv-
ing from day to day with their hooks
and nets.

Before morning we were awaken-
ed by the cessation of the ship's mo-
tion, the rattle of machinery, and
the heavy clanking of the great
chains as the anchors were dropped;
the inarticulate cries of the Chinese
sailors who were busy on deck, and
the creaking of ropes and pulleys as
ladders were lowered down past our
windows. At daybreak, as the morn-
ing mists cleared away, we found
ourselves anchored just outside the
breakwater of Yokahoma harbor.

Inside there was a scene of cosmo-
politan marine activity seldom equal-
ed. There were dozens of craft of
every description, and vessels from
every nation under the sun. Just
inside the harbor entrance lay the
American Asiatic squadron. Far-
ther beyond lay a German battleship.
An immense liner from Marseilles
was discharging at one of the long
stone piers. The Derflnger of the
Norddeutsch Lloyd was tied to a
buoy while a stream of launches
plied between her and the landing.
A liner of the Spanish Mail was just
docking. There were big freighters
from Australia, traders from South
America, merchantmen from Eng-
land and Holland and Denmark. Con-
spicuous from many mastheads was
the dragon banner of the Celectial
Empire, while of course, more num-
erous than any other, was the rising
sun of Japan. Of all that vast float-
ing commercial world our vessel
alone unfurled the stars and stripes
to the morning breeze. Steam launch-
es were darting to and fro among
the larger vessels with whistled
shrieks of every pitch and tone;
barges were being shoved hither and
thither; countless fishing vessels
were threading their way out to the
or en sea, and on every side eager
little Jars were sculling around in
their tiny sampans anxious to offer

their services for a few coins.

We had not waited long when a
conspicuous launch came plowing
out to us and a trio of handsomely
uniformed Japanese medical inspect-
ors came on board. The ship's crew
were quickly assembled on the for-
ward deck. The waiters and cabin
boys in their spotless linen lined
up in a long double row. The sailors
dropped their work and fell into line,
while up from the bowels of the ship
into the light of day poured a horde
of coolies — oilers and stokers — each
stripped to the waist and a grimy
towel wound around his head or
thrown over one shoulder. They
were quickly counted, checked up,
and inspected. Then, while the steer-
age passengers were marshalled on
the after deck, were gone over, the
rest of us assembled at breakfast.
Our excellent appetites were suffi-
cient proof of our physical fitness
and we were quickly passed up. The
ship passed on into the harbor and
we took one of the launches that
were lined up like busses at a rail-
way terminal to the landing.

Rikasha men were lined up on
either side of the street dressei in
close-fitting trousers, short waists,
and peculiar black rain and sun-proof
helmets.

Some of us had been studying
Japanese in an endeavor to be able
to call one of these men to our ser-
vice. We quickly decided that what
we really needed was enough Japan-
ese profanity to keep them from kid-
naping us. They swarmed down
upon us, each pulling his little buggy
behind him. They formed a solid
phalanx in front of us, flanked us
four deep on either side, and then
closed in on^the rear, all the time
gabbling in fragmentary English
about the excellency of their service
and their various rates. Most of the
crowd quickly capitulated and were
soon rapidly whirling down the
broad, well-paved street. Yokohama
is a cosmopolitan city and not typi-
cal of Japan. It is a commercial
town built up since Japan's commer-
cial awakening and is characterized
by broad streets, handsome stone and
brick buildings, European stores
and inhabitants from every civilized
nation. We dropped into a bank
where a sleek Chinaman, for a lib-
eral commission, changed our dol-
lars and cents into mysterious yen
and sen, and we at once began to

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scatter this out over the financially
parched land. We at once started
for Tokyo.

[Continued next week.]

ATHLECTICS

(Continued from page 6.)

plays and I can tell you what he is.
The stuff the boy is made of shows
off when he plays the game. No
study on the program can teach
promptness, initiative, and self con-
trol so well. There are values in
"making the team" which no young
man can well afford to miss, but, as
in everything else, abuses will crop
out, too, if care is not taken. There
is need of continual instruction in
what is manly, and instruction on
the field is worth twice the instruc-
ton of the lecture hour.

During the fall football demands
keenest attention. The football of
1912 is quite dissimilar from that of
ten years ago. Seen as it is now, it is
great sport and worth learning about
even if one never plays, for boys all
over the land can talk intelligently
about the game and expect Normal
graduates to know it too. The teach-
er of youth who is unacquainted
with a "touchdown" loses a grand op-
portunity when the boy learns about
this lack of knowledge in "the com-
mon branches." Members of the
Athletic Association are given oppor-
tunity to learn the game.

Another feature of fall athletics
will be volley ball, tennis, basket
ball, and other ball games. It is ex-
pected that a volley ball tournament
will be carried through if time per-
mits. Time has been so adjusted
that there will be opportunity for be-
ginners to learn the intricacies of
football and other games during the
last recitation period of the day, cer-

tain days of each week,

The regular squad will work at
the four o'clock period. The call for
candidates is already out and this
week the sifting will go on. It seems
too early to mention names, but
prospects are not gloomy for a cou-
ple of good elevens to represent the
school. All interested are invited
to have part one way or another in
helping to organize the teams. Spec-
tators on the field often interfere
with practices, but on the side lines
never.

A closing word to the new boys:
Don't be hesitant about entering
some of the forms of recreation here
offered. It is the best way to become
acquainted, and it is, too, about the
only way to avoid mental staleness.
You are urged to participate wher-
ever it will do you the most good.

OPEN COUNTRY CLUB

On Friday noon of last week a
meeting was held for the purpose of
organizing an Open Country Club.
Quite a large number were present and
an organization known as the Open
Country Club No. 4 was formed.
The following officers were elected:

President Clarence Clute.

Vice-President Irene Job.

Treasurer Mary Conrad.

Secretary Esther Harris

The new Club begins the year with
every promise of success, and we hope
to see a large attendance at the first
meeting which will be held Monday
evening, October 21.

Since the opening of school Miss
Davis has had calls for her boy scout

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The manual training department
has ordered four lathes in the way
of new equipment. Last yr-ar the
lathes were in use all of the time,
and the addition of these four will
give ample opportunity to all those
who wish to take up that branch of
manual arts.

All boys wishing work after
school hours or on Saturdays should
hand their names to the president
and secretary of the Y. M. C. A.

Mr. Ralph Switzer, 'II, is princi-
pal of the LaHarpe high school.

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MACOMB, ILL., OCT. 10, 1912.

NUMBER III

FOOTBALL VICTORY NUMBER ONE

HE HELD UP A (HER) TRAIN.

Monmouth High School Is Defeated by a
Score of 26-0.

The Normal Braves made their
first appearance Saturday, Octo-
ber 5, and came away with
the scalps of the enemy hanging at
their belts. The score was 2 6-0, and
the Monmouth High School team was
the victim. The boys played a steady,
consistent game all the way through,
and did exceedingly well for the first
game. The winning of this game
will help much to put the team on
its feet, and insures a successful sea-
son. The Monmouth boys played a
clean game, and showed the sports-
manlike spirit in their defeat both
on and off the field. Coach Walrath
tried out several substitutes during
the last half of the game in order to
get a line upon extra material.

Captain Hood of Monmouth won
the toss and chose to defend the east
goal. Monmouth failed to push the
ball through our lines, and it soon
went over to our team. Trego, our
star left tackle, made consistent
gains on tackle bucks, and Shields
soon crossed the line for the first
touchdown. He failed to kick goal.
Score 6-0. The Normal boys soon
repeated this performance, Shields
making another touchdown but again
failing to kick goal. Score 12-0.

During the second quarter Steph-
ens, left half, and Shields, full-back,
made steady gains, and Trego was
sent over the line for another touch-
down. Shields kicked goal. Score
19-0.

Monmouth kicked off at the be-
ginning of the second half, and
Black, who received the ball, went
through the Monmouth line for forty-
five yard gains. No touchdown was
made, however, during this quarter

In the fourth quarter, Wilson, on
end, got the ball on a fumble and
made a forty-yard run down the field.
Shields then made twenty yards
through the line, and soon crossed
for the final touchdown of the game.
Shields kicked goal. Score 26-0.

The lineup follows:

Monmouth. Normal.

Story le. .. Black, Wilson

Saturday evening, about seventy-
five members of the Athletic Associa-
tion met in the gymnasium to cele-
brate the victory over Monmouth
High School. The fun began with
some military marching directed by
Mr. Walrath, after which refresh-
ments consisting of cider and dough-
nuts were served. Mr. Virgil Catlin,
president of the Athletic Association,
then took the chair and called upon
several of those present, who made
short talks concerning the various
phases of athletics and the day's
game. Those speaking were Mr.
Walrath, Miss Corbin, Mr. Morgan,
Mr. Ginnings, Mr. Ralph Wilson of
last year's team, and Manager Black
and Captain Simonson of the pres-
ent team. After the speeches more
refreshments were served, and
school songs and yells ended a very
pleasant evening.

Burnett It Trego

Rogers lg. .Simonson, Capt

Coats
Hool, capt c Gill, Moore

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CHANGES IN THE TEACHING
FORCE OF TRAINING SCHOOL

Four New Teachers Have Been Secured to

Fill As Many Vacancies on the

First Floor.

To one who is familiar with the
Training School of last year it now
presents a very different set of con-
ditions, largely because of the several
changes in the teaching staff. Near
the close of the last school year, Miss
Lavinia Stinson, who had charge of
the seventh grade for the last two
years and who is one of our Normal
graduates, decided to ask for a leave
of absence in order that she might
further her preparation for critic
work. About the same time, Miss
Clara Kirkpatrick, who has had
charge of the fifth and sixth grades
for the past two years, who is also
one of our Normal graduates, made
it known that she intended to re-
sign her position. A little later,
Miss Gladys Fishleigh, another of
our graduates, who has been in
charge of the primary room for the
past two years, decided to resign, in
order that she might attend the Uni-
versity of Illinois, and thereafter
take up a similar position in the
new State Normal School at Kent,
Ohio. It was not until early in Au-
gust that Miss May H. Prentice, who
came here last year from Clevelanl
to become the supervisor of the lower
grades, decided to resign to go with
Mr. McGilvrey, the former principal,
to take charge of the Department of
Education and the Training School
in the new school of which Mr. Mc-
Gilvrey has become president. These
four vacancies, of course, required
four new teachers to fill them, and
after quite a long time, during which
a great many candidates were in-
vestigated, the principal finally de-
cided to recommend the following
appointments:

Miss Ethel Jackson, critic in the
seventh grade. " > ^^ __

Miss Katherine Thompson, critic
in the fifth and sixth grades.

Miss Ethel H. Robson, critic in the
fourth grade.

Miss Mary G. Rud, critic in the

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The students should consider their
own propensities and needs, weigh
carefully the merits of the different
organizations, before rushing in head-
long to become connected with a half
dozen student activities. A student
who does not share by personal contact
the pleasures and benefits of some of
the "side lines" is missing something
that rightfully belongs to him and which
he needs for his development; but by
choosing indiscriminately or allying
himself with more than he possibly can
do justice to, he injures both himself
and the several organizations.

If the above suggestion were fol-
lowed it would mean the strengthening
of all our student organizations.

"DON'T BE EXCLUSIVE"
Life here in school depends upon
what we make it. It is not so much
the pleasant and healthy environ-
ment here which makes school life
good, but it is the way in which
every person as an individual uses
that environment for his own good.
There may be a football game in
progress which should develop live
school spirit. But if a person goes
to that game in an opposite attitude
of mind to that of the loyal rooters,
he does not have the courage to
cheer the team when it wins, and is
enough of a pessimist to knock if it
loses.

As a result of this lone person's
attitude he comes to think that the
school is a number of separate indi-
viduals, each going his own way.

He fails to realize that much of the
success of any activity rests upon
him, and that he must work in
unison with his fellow workers in
order to accomplish the desired re-
sults. In one word it is co-operation
which makes anything successful in
which several are interested.

Then there is a danger of going
tc the other extreme. One may be
so interested in an organization or
activity that he shuts himself up as
it were in a monastery. His whole
mind and being is concentrated upon
making some certain thing. He may
neglect his study to be sure of a
position on a team. He does not
come into contact with many who
are working for the same thing that
he is. This all results in exclusive-
ness. The man knows only a cer-
tain group, and it is only that group
in which he is interested. He shuts
out the light of the outer world and
misses the opportunity of bumping
against other people and seeing
things as they do. His mind is shut
up in narrow limitations, and he be-
comes so used to those limits that
to him there is only one side to a
question, and that is his side. The
moral of it all is: Don't be exclusive.
Be your own master and not the ser-
vant of others, and learn to make
the best of your environent if you ex-
pect to enjoy your work in school
and in life.

MR. GINNINGS' BIRTHDAY

Thursday, Oct. 3, was Mr. Gin-
nings' forty-second birthday. In
honor of the occascion, Mrs. Gin-
nings prepared a delightful luncheon
which she served in the ravine to the
complete surprise of Mr. Ginnings.
The members of Mr. Ginnings' class
in trigonometry were the invited
guests. The luncheon consisted of
fried chicken, potatoes, gravy, ice
cream, cake, coffee, and those other
delicacies which go to make such a
luncheon good. Those present were
the Misses Easum, Haffner, Cain,
Grote, Mr. Simonson and Mr. Gin-
nings and family.

Manager Black announces that a
game has been scheduled with Gem
City Business College for October 25.
This game which is to be played on
the home field completes a good
schedule, and from all appearances at
present a successful season is assured
the W. I. S. N. team.

CHANGES IN TEACHING FORCE

(Continued from payi; 9.,

first and second grades.

These teachers represent a some-
what varied preparation in view of
the fact that they were prepared in
quite different schools. Miss Jack-
son <omes to take up her work as a
graduate from the Illinois Normal
University. She graduated there
some years ago and has since been
teaching in the common schools of
Illinois, except last year, when she
took a position as critic teacher in
the intermediate grades of the Okla-
homa State Normal School at Ed-
mond.

Miss Thompson comes as a gradu-
ate of the Northern Illinois State
Normal School, at DeKalb, where she
spent the last year in special work
in the Training School there, under
the direction of Mrs. McMurry.

Miss Robson comes to her work as
a graduate of the Normal School at
Brockport, New York, and with her
Bachelor's degree from Teachers'
College, Columbia University, in
June, 1912.

Miss Rud came to take up her
primary work as a graduate from the
Moorhead State Normal School in
Minnesota, and with a Bachelor's de-
gree from the University of Chicago,
from which she graduated last June,
where she did special work during
the summer.

All of these teachers come very
highly recommended, both by the
school officials with whom they have
worked, and by the college and nor-
mal school professors under whom
they have prepared. They have tak-
en up their work readily, and give
rromise of carrying it forward in a
highly approved manner. The fact
that they have had such varied pre-
paration brings to our institution the
various methods and the several
views of school management which
are advanced by the varied institu-
tions from which they have gradua-
ted. These can be compared and
contrasted with profit. We have no
hesitancy in predicting a very suc-
cessful year for the whole Training
School, for we know of the ability of
the teachers who remained with us
from last year, and are also confi-
dent of that of the ones who have
come to take up the work.

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Something Else Enters into a Game Besides the Mere Knowing and Playing of

j FIVE DAYS IN JAPAN |

By Wilbur O. Pendarvis 1

[Continued from last week.]
The railway is a narrow-gauge, a
diminutive affair typical of the coun-
try. You almost feel ashamed of
yourself squeezing into the tiny little
coaches to make the little old-fash-
ioned engine pull you. We glided
out into the country, which seemed a
mass of gardens crowding up to the
very edge of the road. Men and wo-
men were toiling in their little plots,
some harvesting rice or barley with
reap hooks and others working up
the mud and planting for the next
crop. All wore big, wide bamboo
hats that were a compromise be-
tween the merry widow and a para-
sol.

Reaching Tokyo we engaged rik-
sha men for the day for a yen and a
half, of seventy-five cents gold, and
were at once off to see the town.
Their parks are picturesque, cool,
and densely shaded. They usually
contain a temple or two, some small
shops, and a tea house. In Shiba
park are found some masoolas and
temples of ancient rulers of the S'ho-
gun Dynasty that are considered
masterpieces of Japanese art. As a
r.ovice I was struck by the fantastic
design and intricate finish of the
temple roofs, and the wonderful
wood carvings of their neatly deco-
rated interiors. We saw a number
of the public buildings, all handsome
modern edifices, and took an exter-
ior view of the imperial castle. The
imperial grounds suggest the Middle
Ages. They are surrounded by a
massive stone wall, and around this
runs the fabled moat. But it is not
filled w : ith bottomless slime and the
rusting armor of vanquished foes.
Carefully groomed grass creeps down
to its edge and its waters run fairly
fresh. Looking across the bridge
and through its massive iron gates
you catch a glimpse of long, shady
avenues, beautiful gardens and well-
kept lawns, but the solemn looking
little guards in elaborate uniforms,
and carrying big guns longer than
themselves, silently beckon you back-
ward if you draw too near in your
inquisitiveness.

Xyeno park is one of Tokyo's most

interesting places. In its wide extent
are found shops and tea houses,
tombs and temples, the Imperial
museum and art gallery, and the geo-
logical gardens, 'i here are also,
cool, quiet, shady avenues and long
rows of seats. Here, in April, the
cherry blossoms enchant everything
with their delicate beauty, and here
at all times is to be found a pictur-
esque display of Japanese life. To
this place comes the Jap of both
high and low degree for rest, pleas-
ure, worship or communion with na-
ture. Some are seated in quiet cor-
ners visiting; some are taking re-
freshments at the little shops or in a
tea house, while others are going
through their pagan gymnastics be-
fore the idols in the artistic temples.
Many are walking through the zoo
admiring and feeding the animals
and ibirds, while others are wander-
ing through the 'museum studying
the collected wonders of many lands,
or gazing in admiration upon the
rich display of their native art, paus-
ing, perhaps, now and then, to deftly
sketch on a small pad something par-
ticularly striking in a painting or
piece of decoration.

At noon we indulged in a typical
Japanese dinner, ' raw fish, boiled
fish, dressing, rice, salads, pudding
and weak, delicately flavored tea, to-
gether with a little box of coals to
light our cigarettes. It was, of
course, served on the floor, while we
squatted down on cushions and ate
with chopsticks. There's really a
whole lot of science about manipu-
lating a pair of chopsticks, but it's a
shame to spoil a good meal trying to
master that science.

After dinner I was interested in
the field-day exercises connected with
the closing of school. The schools
participating in the program were
those of the aristocratic class, and
many important officials were there-
fore present. The children, with
their bright little Oriental faces and
identical costumes, all looked just
alike to me as they deftly executed
their various marches and drills,
each carrying a flag, while a military
band played an American air and a
squad of soldiers fired salutes over
them.

Before returning to Yokohama we
went through one of the large novel-
ay stores. It was a maze of narrow
aisles and shelves piled up with in-
numerable articles. Each counter or

row of shelves constituted a sepa-
rate store with its owner waiting,
eager to urge you into a purchase.
The floois are inclined, so that as
you wind back and forth along a
system of crowded aisles you gradu-
ally climb to higher altitudes and
greater wonders until you are so
completely lost that you have to de-
pend on your guide to lead you out.

At noon on the following day we
left Yokohama. The big ship slowly
slid out of the harbor and started
southward down the gulf. Wo pass-
ed Mississippi Bay, where Commo-
dore Perry landed on his remarkable
visit. We were eagerly scanning the
clouded western horizan in hopes of
catching a glimpse of Fugiyama. We
were almost beginning to lose hope
when suddenly its snowy summit
burst into view away up in the sky,
clear above the clouds that hung
over the land. It afforded a beauti-
ful sight for two or three hours. Its
broad, dark base lifted gently up
from the plain and after tapering up
symmetrically for a short distance
was lost in the heavy billowing
clouds, while above them, apparently
floating in the heavens its summit
sparkled in the midday sun. Seeing,
I easily understood why this mag-
nificent snow-clad crest of the empire
is sacred to the Japs and figures so
largely in all his works of art.

The gulf was dotted with numer-
ous craft, part of them steering in
for Yokohama and part, like we, out-
ward bound. We passed some small
islands in the southern part of the
gulf, each strongly fortified, and
made our way out to the open sea
through the entrance, where the
shore on either side bristled with
batteries. A Japanese destroyer
came tearing along almost under our
bows, with her men assembled on
deck in shiny uniforms and her
frowning guns carefully muzzled
with canvas covers. Off on the left
six of their big- battleships were
maneuvering, sailing in various for-
mations, turning hither and thither
like a football squad running signals,
while the inky cloud from their
belching funnels made a big smudge
on the horizon.

We spent the next day in Kobe.
This is a manufacturing city with big
factories and shipyards. The moun-
tains come down close to the sea and
a short walk back of the town leads
to the Nunobeki waterfalls where a

THE WESTERN COURIER

mountain stream makes two magni-
ficent leaps on its journey down to
the sea At either fall is a small ob-
servation house where the tourist
may rest, take tea, and buy curios
while he gazes.

After a pleasant pilgrimage to the
falls I visited a studio factory where
the artistic satsuma porcelain and
cloisonne ware are made. This prov-
ed to be a china-painting shop of the
highest order, where the patient art-
ists sit on the floor with their work
on a low bench before them and use
eyeglasses like watchmakers. Days
may be spent in the decoration of a
single piece. A small saucer I ex-
amined had two thousand butter-
flies painted upon it. Their pro-
ducts are almost innumerable, and
comprise every conceivable porcelain
article of use, ornament, and novel-
ty, from handsome vases and com-
plete dinner sets that are far too ex-
pensive to be used for the purpose
intended, to beautifully ornamented
hat-pin heads that, when cemented
to the murderous steel, are far too
dangerous for use in complex society.
A subsequent visit through some of
the large silk stores, to say the least

impressed us with the wonderful
works of the caterpillar.

[Continued next wfceh.j

VICTORY NUMBER ONE

(Continued from page 9.)

Spicer rg. .Wyne, Garrison

Haberman rt . ..Watson, Smith

Stephens re. . ..Wade Watson

Switzer

Wray qb Thompson

Hardman rh Bogue

Moore lh Stephens

St. Clair fb Shields

Referee, Buckley. Umpire, Swit-
zer. Head linesman, Wilson.

THE ORCHESTRA

The Orchestra is now well organized
and bids fair to be the best in the his-
tory of the school. It has more pieces
than any previous orchestra, and it is
practicing regularly. Those in the or-
chestra are:

First Violin

Dorothy Stinson

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Eli Smith

Russell Rector

Junior McElvaine

Edward McDonough

Paul Ginnings
Clarinet-- Orville Jones
Flute— Clarence Cluta
Trombone-- Harry Spangler
First Cornet— Harlow V/yne
Second Cornet— Lee Hoyt
Cello— Susie B. Davis
Piano-- Isabel Brooking
Drums— George Stremmel

There is a good student named Wal-
ters,
In algebra he never falters.
In German he's fair,
In Civ'cs all there,
This charming young fellow named
Walters.

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VOLUME X

MACOMB, ILL., OCT. 17, 1912.

NUMBER IV

THE FACULTY MAKE MERRY STRAW BALLOT TO BE TAKEN GALESBURG WINS A VICTORY

A Barn Shower and Party Given to
Mr. and Mrs. Drake.

"One dark night, not so very long

ago,
We were all downtown attendin' of

the show.
The firebell rang, but the department

-was so slow
There was a hot time in Drake's barn

that night."
This bit of classic verse recalls to
the reader's mind that about a
month ago Prof. Drake's barn, with
it's entire contents of hay, imple-
ments, etc., was totally destroyed by
fire. A new building has been erect-
ed and the faculty of the Normal on
last Thursday night "warmed" it
in the good old-fashioned way. The
affair was planned as a surprise for
Mr. and Mrs. Drake, who walked
into the trap laid for them in an
approved fashion. When they re-
turned home, after making some
calls, they found the members of the
faculty playing.

"In the barn that Drake built."
The address of the evning was de-
livered by Mr. Morgan, who read in
a clear voice a thrice repeated wel-
come "to the prodi-gal, the old-gal
and all the little galluses." Various
and sundry articles from curry comba
to milk pails, from rat traps to car-
ridge robes, from milk stools (hand-
made) to snow shovels, from ham-
mers and nails to brooms and hal-
ters, were presented each, accompan-
ied by a verse which wore itself into
the refrain:

"That shelters the cow,
That feeds the faculty,
That plays in the barn that Drake

built."
The "hit" of the evening, however,
was made when Miss Grote and Miss
Buckner presented a lantern and
sang in inimitable manner a dedica-
tory poem to the tune of "The Old
Oaken Bucket." We regret to state
that owing to a slight nervousness,
which attacks Miss Buckner when
singing in public, the burden of the
song fell to Miss Grote, whose work
was above criticism, except that she
allowed a little too much emotion to
creep into her voice. Needless to
say there were not many dry eyes in
the barn when the song was finished.
Apples, cider and doughnuts were

A straw ballot is to be taken in
school next Tuesday. The polls are to
be in Mr. Dickerson's room and will
be open from 12:30 to 5 P. M. with
the exception of the 2:20-3:05 period.
This will be taken by the class in His-
tory 8. The following committees
were appointed:

On instructing voters — Clarence
Jones.

On Ballots — Fred Sykes, Theron
Chaney, Onno Walters.

On registration — Dwight Croxton,
William Stookey.

Judges — Hazel Hoxworth, Helen
Miner, Mildred Morgan.

Clerks — Louis Crawford, Victor
Wood, Eli Smith.

Police — Joe Trego, Ernest McCall.

The results will appear next week.

LITERARY SOCIETIES

The Literary Societies are starting
i off in good shape this year. An effort
is being made to get good workers in-
to each society and not to put much
stress on numbers. Both the regular
program and the reception given last
week by the Emersonians were very
creditable. Two joint programs, Thanks
giving and Christmas, will be especi-
ally prepared by the Emersonians and
Platonians. Strong literary societies
are of great credit to any school.

served as refreshments. The eve-
ning will long be remembered as
time well spent. We are sure that
the Drakes must feel very much as
the people did who sent the follow-
ing card of thanks to the paper:

".Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Smith wish to
sincerly thank all the kind friends
who worked so hard to save our
property from destruction by fire
last Thursday at our house, and hope
to be able to return the favor to each
and every one in the near future."

The High School Boys Take Revenge for Last

Year's Defeat by a Score

of 13-0.

The Normal football squad met
their first defeat of the season, and
also the first defeat ever sustained
at the hands of Galesburg high school
last Saturday. The game was close
and hard fought all the way through,
and the final score was 13-0 in favor
of Galesburg. The Galesburg fellows
were clean players an! moved their
plays off smoothly. They depended
mostly upon Phillips, left half-back,
who was the only man who could
make consistent gains.

The Normal boys did not put up
the game that they did the week be-
fore against .Monmouth, because of a
number of changes in the line-up
which were unavoidable. Shields,
the star fullback, failed to show up,
which caused an entire change in
the line and some changes in the
back field. Considering the handi-
cap, the boys put up a good game,
and they are to be commended in that
they held the score as low as it was.

Captain Simonsor. of the Normal
team won the toss and chose to kick
off to Galesburg. Bogue kicked off
to Phillips, who carried the ball back
thirty-five yeards. During this quar-
ter neither side scored. There was
an interchange of punts and line
bucks. Finally Galesburg tried a
forward pass and Black, the Normal
left end, intercepted it and carried
the ball back forty yards.

During the second half both teams
resorted to line-bucks and punts. To-
ward the end of the quarter Gales-
burg forced the ball over the line for
a touchdown. Phillips failed to kick
goal. Score 6-0.

At the beginning of the second half
both teams played faster and harder,
the Normal boys playing continually
on the defensive. Bogue kicked off
to Phillips, who brought the ball
back forty yards. No touchdowns
were made this quarter.

In the last quarter Galesiburg
made another touchdown and Cap-
tain Scott kicked goal. Score 13-0.

(Continued on page 16.)

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EDITORIAL

Did you ever stop to think that
this Normal school or any other
school is a miniature democracy?
That at its head is a man who is
known as the principal or president?
Then there is a corps of teachers
which is in reality a cabinet or ad-
visory board to the principal. Then,
most important of all, is the student
body which forms the constituency.
This constituency represents every
type of man and woman. It is made
up of people who have various char-
acteristics, some of them being ex-
actly opposite to others. This fact
must be dealt with in such a way as
to prevent conflicts between people
of opposite natures. This is done by
enforcing a system of laws or rules
made up by the student body itself.
It is this system which every student
must shape his action by, and which
the faculty, with the help of the stu-
dents, proposes to enforce.

As a national government is di-
vided up into various heads, so must
a school government be divided. Ath-
letics must be governed by a special
body appointed for that purpose.
So must the literary societies, and
so must all the other school organi-
zations. It is this plan of govern-
ment which makes athletics, oratory,
etc., interesting to the students.
There is no student in school, but
should find something in which he is
intersted and in which he could have
a share of the governing. Then, if
every student engages in an activity
he should bind himself by the laws
which he himself helps to make.

But, nevertheless, there are certain
people who try to resist all efforts
made by anyone to govern them.
They continually persist in breaking

the rules laid down by the scho<
law. it is generally those people
who haven't the energy to help <• -
establish these rules who are the ones
to object. If they act contrary to
the rules and are punished, they pro-
ceed to say that that rule is unjust,
and yet when they have had the priv-
ilege to construct these rules, they
fail to take advantage of it. There-
fore, every student who really wishes
to boost the school and its organiza-
tions will help in governing and will
abide by the rules or laws so made.

WHAT IS LIFE?

The first issue of "The Biggsville
Booster" cornea to our notice. It ap-
pears this year in a much neater
form and on a better grade of paper
than that of last year. In it there
is a note whk-h says that "The Cour-
ier" lacks life. Whether or not this
criticism is just depends upon "The
Booster's" conception of what life is.
We Normal School students have
come to the point where we perhaps
take life more seriously than the av-
erage high school student. Anyway,
we think The Courier would not be
doing its duty to the school if half
J of its space were filled with jokes.
Here, when we are in a humorous
vein, we read "Life," or "Judge," or
some other paper of a similar nature,
instead of going to our school paper
for our humor.

EMERSONIAN RECEPTION

Friday evening, October 11th, the
Eniersonians gave their annual fall
party, to the rest of the student
body. When the crowd gathered,
they found the Music and Society
Hall in blue and white, the Emer-
sonian colors. A delightful program
was given, which began with the
Platonian and Emersonian songs.
This was followed by a solo by Miss
Ruth Robertson, a reading by Miss
Williams, a violin solo by Miss
Freda Welborn, and a solo by Miss
Eulalie Baker. Between these num-
bers we were given a chance to talk
about the weather, and to air our
views concerning grave political
questions. Much enthusiasm was
shown when the political subject was
discussed. After the program, re-
freshments, consisting of ice cream
and cake, were served in Society
Hall. Then all sang the Normal
song and went home saying that the
Emersonians were royal entertain-
ers.

TWELFTH GRADE PARTY

If you if

\>\y saw at times
of twelfth g
the halls. They g<
n uch excited ovei and

always seemed to be planning. it
was finally agreed to go out into the
country Wedi

9. The conveyances were to be hay-
racks. But when Wednesday
the plans were all spoiled because of
the moist condition of the wea'her.
Then Miss Isabel Brooking came to
the rescue and acted as hostess to a
joily bunch of twelfth graders at her
home on West Calhoun street. The
!<ments, which were meant to
have been eaten in the woods, were
spread upon the floor and eaten in
picnic fashion just the same. Then
came music and games until a late
hour when all went home voting Miss
Isabel the most excellent of host-
esses.

EDUCATIONAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Military
Tract Educational Association is to be
held tomorrow and Saturday at Gales-
burg. In order that the faculty may
attend, there will be no school tomor-
row of which we are all, of course,
very thankful. The program has some
very good talent, there being speakers
of national reputation such as Luther
Halsey Gulick and Edwin G. Cooley.
This will be, no doubt, as interesting
a meeting as the association has had
for some time.

A CORRECTION

In last week's issue of the Courier,
Eli Smith and Russell Rector were
given as playing second violin in the
orchestra. This was an error, and we
wish to correct the mistake and say
that Mr. Smith and Mr. Rector are
among those playing first violin.

Speaking of umbrellas, we recently
heard of a student who inadvertently
having changed umbrellas with a fel-
low-student, evolved this note: Miss

presents her compliments to

Miss , and begs to say that she

has an umbrella wnich isn't mine. So
if you have one that isn't hers, no
doubt they are the ones.

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If I Fail to Be True to Myself My School Will Suffer from the Fact That I Am Untrue to Her Also.

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FIVE DAYS IN JAPAN j

By Wilbur O. Pendarvis 1

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[Continued from last week.]

The following morning found us
enroute for Nagasaki, sailing through
the Inland Sea. There is no stretch
of ocean voyage more pleasant, no
bit of ocean scenery more beautiful
than the Japanese Inland Sea. Myri-
ads of islets lift their crests -on every
side and fade away from a bright,
fresh green in the fore ground to
blue and hazy purple in the distance.
The unruffled sea reflects all the col-
or of the sky and islands, and the
ship glides along with phantom
smoothness. Each isle of any im-
portance is carefully cultivated; the
sea is dotted with fishing craft, while
small inter-island steamers ply back
and forth. Excitement was added to
our trip by an all-day's race with a
German liner. This other big ship
had a couple of miles the start of
us, but we gradually gained on her
until near nightfall, as she stopped
to change pilots, we shot by her at a
close distance, exchanging boisterous
greetings with those on board.

As we pulled into Nagasaki short-
ly after sunrise a swarm of barges
and sampans sallied out to meet us.
By the time we had come to a stop
they had formed a compact mass on
all sides of us, leaving only room for
the launches to back in for the pas-
sengers. The barges were laden
oal and the sampans were fill-
ed with men and women who at once
at once started a scene of bewilder-
ing activity. A series of rude plat-
forms, arranged to form a stairway,
were quickly tied to the ship, leal-
ing up to each port 'hole in the hull
and up over the railings onto the
fore and aft decks. Then a double
row of people lined up each stair-
way, two standing on each step. A
dozen or more in each barge filled
grass baskets, holding about one-
half a hundred weight each, with
coal, and lifted them up to the first
pair on the lower step of the stairs.
They in turn siezed the baskets and
passed them up between them to the
next pair above, and so on, the bas-
ket never slackening its speed until
it had entered the ship, been carried
down the proper passages and dump-

ed into the bunkers. Each human
elevator kept a steady stream of coal
pouring in while a stream of empty
baskets poured out. The two thou-
sand men and women, scantily clad,
sweaty, and grimy with dust, never
slackened their work nor paused to
rest. Eefore night they had poured
in enough coal to steam the big ship
fifteen thousand miles, and we were
again on our way, bidding farewell
to the Island Empire.

Japan as a country is beautiful.
One can never forget its broken coast
line with its charming gulfs, bays
and harbors; its wonderful inland
sea, its towns clustered down on the
shore with the tei raced mountain
slopes rising behind them; its wind-
ing roads with their pcturesque scen-
ery; its waterfalls and sparkling
brooks; its gardens and parks and
temples; its intensely cultivated
lowland, and the forest-clad moun-
tain slopes rising up to the one great
snow-clad crest in the center.

The people are artistic by nature.
Nothing ugly can be tolerated. They
possess a remarkable tact for beauti-
fying unutilized corners. The water
seeping from the cliffs along a moun-
tain road is collected into cool, shady-
pools by the roadside and peopled
with pretty fishes; and the square
openings around which houses are
built are tastefully gardened with
foliage plants and supplied with
dainty pools and fountains. Art with
them has a practical value. It is
usually utilitarian or commercial.
The painter spreads his picture upon
a postcard rather than upon a can-
vas, and the artist spends his time
lending beauty of design and decora-
tion to manufactured articles. Their
houses are light, airy, dainty, almost
fragile in appearance, and all things
bear a certain subtle touch of finish
and refinement.

But with all their beauty and ar-
tistic instinct there are many condi-
tions of life and characteristics of
the people that are hardly to be ad-
mired. One is at once impressed
with the density of the population.
The land is literally overflowing with
people, and many have already been
crowded off into the sea. The coun-
try is burdened with debt, taxes are
high, and economic conditions in
general are very unsatisfactory. The
lives of the poorer classes are about
as miserable as it is possible to im-
agine. There is a remarkable scarci-

ty of animals. The only horse I saw
in the empire was in the imperial
Zoo. All labor is performed by hand
and men themselves become beasts
of burden. Old men go heaving
heavy trucks through the streets, la-
den with nearly a ton of freight, and
the rikasha men, remarkable for their
sped and endurance, are the com-
mon passenger carriers, while the
better class ride behind these hu-
man horses with a conscience per-
fectly at ease A laboring man with
a family to support gets a monthly
wage equivalent to five or six dollars
United States currency. It is not
surprising to find on every hand an
insatiable thirst for money. Every-
thing is commercialized, even to vir-
tue and the sacredness of the home.
The Japanese race undoubtedly
has achieved a phenomenal advance-
ment in the last three decades, and
we may truly mourn at their sudden
adoption of modern civilization.
Much, however, has been imitated
rather than adopted, and the ethical
tenets of a higher civilisation have
not yet been grasped. Commercial
honesty is an unformed virtue. To
buy an article there means, in most
cases, getting cheated. Vendors
crowd around the tourist with their
various wares until they become a
pest. They beg you to make an offer
for this or that. If, in the hope of
getting rid of them, you offer about
half what you think the article in
question is worth, they will finally
take you up. and then you find that
you have paid about three times what
the article is worth. Rikasha men
v ill agree to haul you for almost
any sum you offer, but after the trip
they charge you what they feel like.
If you protest, they summon the near-
est policeman, who tells you that is
the regular rate, and there is noth-
ing to do but pay. The people are
active and industrious, and with
your first favorable impression of
them you are very apt to liken them
to busy little bees. Unfortunately,
this simile can be carried too far,
and you experience the most pointed
applicaton when you get stung.

Japan has a large, well-trained
army and a strong navy. During her
recent conflict with Russia, she was
for that short period able to show
considerable fighting strength. But
all this is in a measure superficial.
It is the over-developed climax of a
too hastily developed country. It

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represents an attempted national
greatness without a true and ade-
quate economic foundation, and as
such Japan does not impress me as
being a really great nation.

GALESBURG WINS

(Continued from page 13.)

A few minutes before the end of the
game, Black was called around right
end and made a forty-yard run. This
was the only sensational play during
the last quarter and time was called
with the score remaining 13-0.
The line-up follows:

Galesburg. Normal.

Ingersoll,

Scott, Capt re. .Wataon, Wilson

Johnson rt. .Simonson, Capt

Erickson rg. . Wyne, Mitchell

Clark c Gill

Carlson Ig Garrison

Simpson It Trego

Melville le Black

Temple qb Thompson

Phillips rh Stephens

Webster fb. . . . W. Watson

Haflin lh Bogue

Rarlck sub Switzer

Tracy sub Coats

Referee, Dickerson; Umpire, Swit-
zer; head linesman, Myers.

If "Happy" can 1 ft a ton is his
Armstrong?

The Platonians are planning a good
program for Halloween. It is to be in
spirit with the day and consists of two
numbers. One is the witch scene from
"Macbeth", and the other is a Hallo-
ween play entitled "The Clever Match-
makers". Both promise to be good
and will no doubt make a very interest-
ing program.

A PROBLEM

Dr. J. M. Davidson who is very
much interested in the Courier sends
us the following:

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NUMBER V

CAVE AN INTERESTING LECTURE

0. J. Kern of Winnebago County Gives a

Stercoptlcaa Lecture on the

Country School.

Monday afternon we were fortu-
nate in hearing County Superinten-
dent O. J. Kern of Winebago county,
give his lecture on the Country
School. The lecture which was ac-
companied by stereopticon views, was
very interesting and wasi enjoyed
Immensely by the large crowd pres-
ent. Mr. Kern is an authority of state
nd nation wide reputation on the
country school. He has given his
lectures in many states, and is to
give one in New York the latter part
of this week. He was. brought here
under the auspices of The Open Coun-
trj Club No. 4.

Mr. Morgan presided at the meet-
ing and first introduced Miss Grote,
who explained the history and
growth of The Open Country Club.
The first one was organized in the
summer of 1911. The last club,
known as number 4, was organized
jur<t three weeks ago. These clubs
are for the purpose of co-operating
v.ith the county superintendents of
the Military Tract in organizing
Open Country Clubs in the various
counties. Many country schools in
the Military Tract have ibeen stand-
ardized through the work of The
Open Country Clubs.

After Miss Grote's remarks, Mr.
Kern warA introduced and he began
his lecture. Many of the slides
shown were hand-colored, making
them very beautiful. Most of them
were scenes taken in Winnebago
county in the vicinity of Rockford,
which is well advancel along the
road toward better country schools.

Mr. Kern's lecture in substance
was as follows:

This is a day and age of progres-
sive ideas. Everything tends toward
progress. The country school can
and should be progressive, education-
ally. In many placea, however, it
may be classed as a stand-pat institu-
tion, sometimes progressing back-
ward instead of forward. The
church and the home are important

(Continued on page 19.)

Mr. Ginnings and Mr. White Slept

Together in Galesburg the Other

Night. Notice Mr. White's Eye.

CONTRACT FOR DORMITORY LET

Mr. Schmidt of Chicago Has Received the
Contract for the Building and Will Be-
gin Operations Soon.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, Mr. Morgan went
to Chicago for the purpose of meet-
ing the board of trustees and consid-
ering bids for the new dormitory.
Several bids were opened and con-
sidered by the board. The lowest
bid was $63,940, and the highest was
$82,000. The board of trustees de-
cided to wait until Thursday ibefore
making their decision in order to
give them time to consider the bids
more fully and to investigate the re-
liability of the bidders. Then they
met in Galesburg, Thursday evening,
and decided to accept the bid of Mr.
Schmidt of Chicago, his bid being
the lowest, which was $63,940.

Mr. Schmidt will begin work as
soon as he can file his bond and have
it accepted.

It is thought that most of the con-
crete work can be finished by the
time cold weather sets in.

Mr. J. M. Keefer, the local trus-
tee, has been appointed superinten-
dent of the construction work with-
out compensation. Mr. Keefer, Mr.
Jelliff, and Mr. Hanna of the board
■>f trustees, and Mr. Morgan of the
faculty form the building commit-

EXTENSION WORK BIG SUCCESS

Resolution Passed at the Galesburg Meeting

Commending Extension Work of

This School.

Mr. E. E. Van Cleve, director of
the extension work, has just return-
ed from his second round of the ex-
tension centers. He has met classes
at Canton, Galesburg, Kewanee, Mo-
line and Rock Island, Monmouth,
Mount Sterling, Peoria, Pittsfleld,
Quincy, and Rushville. Canton has
the largest number of different per-
sons enrolled, furnishing 61. Of
these 20 take Psychology, and 53
Principles of Teaching. Moline and
Rock Island combined furnish the
second largest class, having enrolled
38 different teachers. Of these 29
take Psychology and 26 Principles of
Teaching. Quincy is third, with 36
teachers enrolled in the work. Six-
teen of them take Psychology, 10
History of Education, and 15 Sociol-
ogy. In addition to this, Mr. Bas-
sett, of the Geography Department,
has Extension classes at Quincy in
Advanced Physiography and Methods
in Geography. The first course has
38 enrolled, and the second one 19.
teachers enrolled, of which 18 are
taking Psychology, and 20 History
of Education. Monmouth comes
fifth, with an enrollment of 31, hav-
ing 27 in Psychology, and 20 in
Principles of Teaching. Galesburg
is sixth, and has 30 enrolled, 25 in
Psychology, and 22 in Principles of
Teaching. Pittsfield and Rushville
are tied for the seventh and eighth
place, each enrolling 22. Pittsfleld
has 19 in Psychology, 15 in Princi-
ples of Teaching, and 7 in History of
Education. Rushville, with 22 en-
rolled, has 13 in Psychology, and 13
in Principles of Teaching. Kewanee
comes ninth, with an enrollment of
19, all of whom take Psychology,
and 10 of whom take Principles of
Teaching. Mt. Sterling is tenth,
with an enrollment of 12, seven tak-
ing Psychology an 11 taking Princi-
ples of Teaching.

During the Military Tract meeting
at Galesburg last week the city su-
perintendents of these centers spoke
very highly of this work as it was

(Continued on page 19.)

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EDITORIAL

Our first vacation was given us
last week because of the Educational
fleeting at Galesburg. Although it
was short, it waa a very welcome rest
to all of us. Perhaps it would be in-
teresting to know how some of us
spent this short time. Some of us,
no doubt, went to the country, and
there we saw the artistic touches of
nature in her fall paintings. How
Kood it seemed to breathe the crisp
October air and to feel with the
saucy blackbirds in the woods that
life was still worth the living. Did
we benefit by this visit to Nature?
The answer could be none other than
yes,.

Then some of us turned our faces
the other way and found ourselves in
the crowded city streets. What a
contrast was laid before us. Here we
saw no rolling fields, no crimson,
fold, or brown leaves^ no birds, no
wild flowers, Ibut only stone walls,
stone streets and the s Tging, un-
ceasing tide of humanity. And what
did we see in the tide so untiring yet
always moving? Here is a face worn
with care and toil eking out a mere
existence, and fighting for it with
thousands of others in the same con-
dition. There a face which bespeaks
the fabulously rich. There, too,
has been a conflict and care and toil.
Both have been striving for the same
poal, existence, and hoth will be
paupers in the end as in the 'begin-
n ' Did we benefit by this situdy

of humanity? Again the answer,

Others of us may have spent our

.11 in reading. Some of us in

Ing with our hands or with our

brains. Both may or may not have

JEST TO BE SAYIN' SOMETHIiY

By Us

Man is but an animal, descended from a monkey, some say;
defend their claims to illustrious ancestors by dec'aring this theory all wrong;
and still others prefer not to disclose their identity, and say nothing. But
whether man is a grandson, countless times "greated", a cousin seconded to
the very limit of numerical calculation, or the descendent of the prehistoric
sweetheart of an ape, we are not prepared to say with absolute fairn.ess of
judgement to both parties concerned — we mean the man and the monkey.
We say we won't be so narrow minded as to draw any reflecting inferences
in this respect. Yet with all due honor for the hog raisers of the country and,
aye, even for the paternal pig sty itself, we declare that in our short life time
of "sighs and tears" and more sighs we have seen no less than several of
the human tribe that bear the ear marks of having descended from the
swine. Yes, we will even go farther and say that others we have seen appear
to have never yet descended. But be this as it may, hogs still have their usu-
al place in the stock market quotations and the price of pork Is still so much
and more so per pound.

been beneficial to us depending upon
what and how we read or upon how
we worked. But the main question
is: Did we get anything out of our
vacation which was of value to us?
Did we come back to school a broad-
er minded man or woman? Did we
bring hack with us any new ideas
which, put into practice, would bet-
tei our conditions and environment?
If not, our vacation went to naught.
When life is so short, it is up to us
to make the most of every moment
that we possibly can.

MORE ORAL WORK IN
ARITHMETIC

In the October Educational Bi-
Monthly appears an article on "Some
Sources of Failure to Solve a Prob-
lem." One remedy suggested is for
more oral work. A paragraph from
the article follows:

"In life, the tradesman, the man
in the shop, and people in almost all
walks of life, use more oral than writ-
ten arithmetic. When all of a prob-
lem or a bill cannot be "figured out
in the head," a few scratches on
paper supplement the oral work. If
schools would encourage pupils to
follow the same method in preparing
their work in arithmetic, much time
would be saved and a much better
preparation tor life be given. In
place of such a method, many teach-
ers insist upon a lot of useless writ-
ten work and wasteful methods, and
the pupil, with his eyes and his mind
fixed on the point of his pencil, is
toiling to see number relations be-

yond those of two numbers of one
figure each — the two at the end of
his pencil." — John C. Stone, State
Normal School, Montclair, N. J.

OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS

At the next annual meeting of the
Illinois State Horticultural Society to
be held in Champaign-Urbana, Illin-
ois, December 10 to 13, one session is
to be given over to essays, papers and
addresses by students. The Society
offers a prize of $15 for the best pro-
duction on a Horticultural topic by
any enrolled student in Illinois, wheth-
er in public school, academy, college
or university. The student may se-
lect any horticultural subject. A sec-
ond prize of $10 and a third of $5 are
offered. Subject matter, treatment
and practical value to count eighty
points; composition and delivery twen-
ty points. Paper not to exceed five
minutes in delivery. Contestants may
send their name, postoffice address
and topic to W. B. Lloyd, Secretary.
Kinmundy, Illinois, any time before
December 7, after that, address care
Beardsley Hotel, Champaign, 111.

There was a young fellow named

Happy:
He was so exceedingly scrappy,
That when he yelled for Taft
Some one called him daft,
And the reply that he made was
quite snappy.

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No School Has Any Place for the Student Whose Sole Ambition in Life Is to Benefit and Glorify S<

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WEATHER FORECAST |

|§ If the Normal gets one more g
§ touchdown than its opponent j|
M in tomorrow's game, Gem g
g City will undoubtedly be §
§ snowed under by at leasT: six §
§j points.

GAVE INTERESTING LECTURE

(Continued from page 17.)

:aaors in bettering country condi-
tions, as is the school. But the
school should be made a vital factor
as it can adapt itself in places where
the church or home cannot. Twelve
million children attend the country
schools of the United States. It is
no more than right that they should
learn some of the vital things in ag-
riculture and in other walks of life
thus becoming good workmen and
good citizens. Many may say that
the boys and girls should not be
taught the elements of agriculture
in the country schools, contending
that this phase will be dealt with
more fully in the high school. But it
is a startling fact that ninety-five
per cent of those attending country
schools never enter high school.

There is also a plea for better
country conditions on the ground
that it will keep the boy on the
farm. In certain districts where
farms sell for $250 an acre it was
found that there were 50,000 less
people on the farms than ten years
ago. This is due to a large extent
;o the fact that the country school is
not as inviting a place and does not
hold out such alluring propositions
as it could and should do. Several
slides were shown which went to
show how the country schools could
be bettered. There is much room
for improvement in the building, the
heating system, the playground, the
sources of drinking water, and much
can be done to increase the child's
imprest in his work and play. Sev-
eral views were shown of the Har-
lem Consolidated School of Winneba-
?o county and the many and varied
activities which are carried on there.
'he John Swaney School of
which Mr. Ralph Fyman. '10, was
principal for two years.

.Mr. Kern closed his address by ap-

pealing to the farmers of today whose
farms are valued at from $200 to
$250 per acre to give some of their
money and time to the betterment
of the country school to which they
&end their children, or as Mr. Kern
ao admirably expressed it, "Let
prosperity come into the country
school."

There is also an appeal for more
and better trained teachers, such as
the Normal Schools can send out.
The future of the nation depends
iargely upon the teacher of today,
:-nd it is highly necessary that the
teacher should be well trained for
liia responsible mission.

EXTENSION WORK BIG SUCCESS

(Continued from page 17.)

being conducted in connection with
their schools, and a resolution was
included in those of the Military
Tract meeting which was as follows:

"Since teachers are in as much
need of continuation schools as any
group of workers,

"Resolved, That we especially com-
mend the work being done by the
Western Illinois State Normal School
in providing professional training
for teachers who are actively engag-
ed in the service of our schools, and
request that such work be extended
so that every teacher in the Military
Tract may have the opportunity to
pursue some professional course, and
to get the help she most needs while
at work."

Thus a seeming uncertain prob-
lem has taken definite shape and has
met with a very hearty response.
There seems little cause for concern
about its success. It has more than
met with the response anticipated,
and we have the utmost confidence
in the service it is going to render to
the teachers of the Military Tract.

A STRAW BALLOT

The straw ballot which was taken in
school Tuesday moved off smoothly
and successfully. Everything was done
to make this as similar to a real election
as possible. Wilson had the lead of the
presidential candidates and Dunne for
the gubernatorial. The minor state of-
fices were carried by the Democrats
with the exception of the Lieutenant

What are you going to do to-
morrow afternoon? Why, we are
going to see the team defeat Gem
City. Get your athletic ticket and
come along.

Governor and Attorney General which
were carried by the Progressives and
Republicans respectively. The vote for
the higher offices was as follows:

For President and Vice President
Wilson and Marshall, Dem. 119
Roosevelt and Johnson, Prog. 110
Taft and Sherman, Rep. 56

Chafin and Watkins, Pro. 10

Debs and Seidel, Soc. 1

For Governor

Dunne, Democrat
Deneen, Republican
Funk, Progressive
Worrell, Prohibition
Kennedy, Socialist

135

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

Accidents occur very frequenily.
There are also many ways in which
they may occur. Some of them are
for the time being very embarassing.
For instance:Suppose you are on a train,
homeward bound. Being some what
tired from the labors of the day, you
fall asleep. While thus being held in
the peaceful throes of slumber your
train carries you past the home sta-
tion. Then you suddenly awake to the
fact that the train is moving out of the
station the other side of your home
town. It is rapidly gaining speed and
if you do not disembark at once you
will be carried farther from home than
ever. So the logical thing is to get
off— if you can. If you can't get off, fall
off.

But this story is to be given in
serial form. So if you want the next
chapter, see Mr. Catlin, our eminent
cartoonist.

A neat little sheet known as "The
Student Weekly" has just been pub-
lished for the first time by the students
of Avon High School. We note with

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pleasure that it is not altogether made
up of jokes, as the average high school
paper, but contains some news items
which are really newsy. We wish
"The Student Weekly" the best of
success.

A LUNCHEON

The faculty men gave a luncheon
Monday noon in honor of County Sup-
erintendent 0. J. Kern of Winnebago
County, who addressed the Open
Country Club Monday afternoon. Miss
Mamie Thomson, who is a leader in
the Open Country Club work, and Mr.
Clarence Clute, President of the Open
Country Club No. 4, were special
guests. This luncheon was also in
honor of Mr. Van Cleve whose work
prevents him from attending many of
the faculty gatherings. No program
was given. Miss Colby prepared the
luncheon which consisted of:
Fruit
Steak Baked Potatoes

Asparagus Salad
Tapioca Custard Pudding
Wafers
Coffee

Y. M. C. A.

The Y. M. C. A. still looms up as
one of the big factors in school life.
And yet it is a sad fact, indeed, that
some of the boys have failed to recog-
nize this. So we wish again to extend
a very cordial invitation to the boys
and faculty men to come and join us
in our meetings. We are trying to

make them interesting and we
we are succeeding. Next Tuesday even-
ing, Dr. Rodgers of the Presbyterian
Church will give an address. This will
undoubtedly be of interest and profit
to all of us. Come and do your part to
make it so.

"THE GUNPOWDER PLOT"

It has been reported that Mr. Gin-
nings had some trouble in Galesburg
trying to find a place where he could
buy some gunpowder. Why he should
be wanting to buy gunpowder in Gales-
burg is not for us to say, but neverthe-
less we hope he succeeded in his
quest.

REUNION AND BANQUET

One of the pleasantest features of
the Military Tract meeting at Gales-
burg last Friday was the annual re-
union and dinner for the alumni and
faculty of the Normal, held at the
Galesburg Club. After a strenuous
day of lectures, it was a very agree-
able change to meet in the spacious
reception rooms of the club and have
an opportunity to greet old friends
and exchange experiences. Nearly
every class since the organization of
the Normal was represented, with an
especially large number of 1910, '11,
and '12 graduates. Ninety-one in all,
including the faculty members and
the guests, Dr. Gulick of New York,
and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jelliff of
Galesburg, sat down at seven o'clock
to a tempting four-course dinner.
This reunion seemed to be one of the
most successful that has been held,
and it is hoped that there will be an

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even Iarg< r gathering
next y<-.ixr.

t o '

i of late by MfM
For lack of hotter nai
are known as the hit and Becoal
trio. The first trio sang for us
Thursday morning in ChapeL It
tave two number.', composed by Jo-
seph Barnby entitled "Sweet Is Thy
l.lercy, Lord," and "Sweet and Low."
Miss Shamel promises us some num-
bers from the second trio in a short
time. Those singing in the ftrat trio
were the Misses Baker, Robertson,
Brooking, Grey, Liggett, and Stick-
len.

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VOLUME X

MACOMB, ILL., OCT. 31, 1912.

NUMBER VI

LOST A HARD FOUGHT CONTEST

Gem City Eusincss College Wins Foot Ball

Game After Normal Team Is Weakened

by Injuries of Players.

Our first game with Gem City Bus-
iness College for a number of years
was played last Friday, October 23,
on Normal field. The score was 2 6-
6 in favor of the visitors. Our boys
seemed to have bad luck, as Black,
Trego, Wyne and Watson had to be
taken out of the game during the
last half as a result of injuries sus-
tained by them. This weakened the
team to a great extent, as the four
named men were of the best of our
team. Gem City beat us during the
last half. We had them outclassed
during the first half and beat them
6-0. Gem City played a clean game
with the exception of a few disputes
with the referee, which prolonged
the game into darkness, which was a
disadvantage to both teams, more so
to the Normal team, as they played
on the defensive during the last
quarter.

Captain Simo'iscn won the toss
and chose to defend the west goai.
Captain Murphy kicked off twice for
Gem City, the bail going out of
bounds both times. Bogue for the
Normal then kicked off to Gem City.
The ball went over Gem City's goai
line and was brought back to the
twenty-yard line, where play was be-
gun. Neither side made consistent
gains during this quarter, and it end-
ed with the score 0-0. Wyne at
guard was hurt during this quarter
and Mitchell relieved him.

During the second quarter the
Normal team advanced the ball rap-
idly down the field. Trego, Simon-
son and Watson made good gains on
tackle plays, and Garrison at full
back made good for his share of the
gains. During this quarter Garrisou
crossed the line for our only touch-
down of the game. Bogue failed to
kick goal. Score, — Normal 6, Gem
City 0.

The third quarter Gem City play-
ed much better than previously. Tre-
go and Black were both taken out
because of injuries which, fortunate-
ly were not of any serious character.
This weakened the team to such an
extent as to enable Gem City to make

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KNOCKERS !

Read the Editorial this week
concerning those of your kind
and let the truth of it gradually
soak into those pessimistic heads
of yours.

ANOTHER TRAIN IS HELD UP

"GOB" BENNETT HERE

A football game was played on
Normal field last Saturday afternoon
between the Augusta high school and
the Macomb high school. Both teams
were first-class among the light-
weights, and a close game was the
result. Macomb resorted mostly to
open plays, as they could not gain
through Augusta's line. The for-
ward pass was worked frequently
and many times successfully. Wil-
liams and Thompson did excellent
work for Macomb.

Jerry Bennett, who is well known
there, was the star for Augusta.
Artz also made good gains and caus-
ed Macomb much worry. However,
Augusta was not so well organized
as Macomb, and they received the
small end of the score, which was at
the end of the game 20-13.

two touchdowns during this quarter.
Murphy failed to kick goal both
times. Score, Gem City 12, Normal
6.

The rest of the story may be told
in very few words. Darkness and
penalties helped Gem 'City in making
two more touchdowns. Murphy kick-
ed goal twice, making the final score
26-6.

Or, in Otber Words, tbe Juniors Forget Tbeir

Cares and Make Merry by Roasting

a Few "Weenies".

What has happened to make the
Juniors rejoice is not known. It is
certain that no one rejoiced over the
football game. But nevertheless,
Saturday night the Juniors celebrat-
ed. It has been rumored by some
that they were feeling especially
happy over the fact that they had
finished their six weeks of library
administration. Perhaps this is so;
perhaps it isn't. If you should have
loitered around the ravine Saturday
night, you might have detected the
faint odor of marshmallows and
"weenies" roasting. Or you might
have seen a circle of Juniors around
the fire telling stories. But as ail
boys and girls grow restless in time,
so did the Juniors. They longed for
excitement So a tour of inspection
began. Of course we mean by this
that Mr. Ginning's new house was
| examined thoroughly. Most any Jun-
i ior can tell you how many rooms
there are in this new dwelling on
Ward street. Then, not being satis-
fied with this, nothing would do but
to wake up the west end. Mr. Catlin
made a very effective yell leader, but
it cannot be ascertained whether he
lead in the singing or not. It is sup-
posed ihat Townley and Beacom had
something to do in that line. But
still the Juniors thirsted for more
excitement. So, going to North Mc-
Arthur street they awaited the com-
ing of the 10:55 train. When the
train came the aforesaid yell leader
waved his hat and the rest yelled
and the train stopped. The Juniors
became scare I at this and ran away.
j So did the train. This was enough
', for those naughty Juniors and they
' made tracks toward their respective
rooms, vowing that they would never
again flag a train.

(Continued on page 23.)

There was a tenth grader named
Edie;

Of "A" credits he was very needy.
Although he's a jay,
We've oft heard him say,

With the girls I am certainly speedy.

THE WESTERN COURIER

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Vol. X Thur., Oct. 31, 1912. No. 6

Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1908,

at the posl office at Macomb, 111., under the

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KNOCKERS

Knockers may be of many varie-
ties. There is the knocker who
knocks anywhere, from six to forty
rounds of three minutes each. His
knocking hurts only for the time be-
ing. Then the other contrast is the
constant knocker or the chronic
grouch. But for fear these cogno-
men might insult the subject of this
epistle, and for the sake of preserv-
ing his dignity, we shall call him a
pessimist. Whether there is a place
in this world for a pessimist or not,
we will not attempt to say. But this
we do know, that we have no espec-
ial berth here in school for him.
The Athletic Association is not going
to be a success, nor the Oratoriacl
Association, nor the literary socie-
ties, if there are a number of knock-
ers working against everything for
the benefit of the school and them-
selves.

Sad it is, but true, that there are
always some knockers in every
school. Some of them can't see the
value of a school paper. Some of
them do not have loyalty enough to
come out and root for the orator or
the team. Some of them make a big
noise, others say nothing. But in
the end it all results in harm.

An attempt has been made in these
editorial epistles to deal with some of
the existing evils in school. If they
have remedied any difficulties we
feel that they have not been in vain.
If you like them, read them. If you
don't like them, read them anyway.
They might do you good, and we
hope they will do no barm.

But if you don't like them, please
don'1 say so. You will he talking
against the Courier, and anyone who

does so will be classed an

We are trying to knock
the knockers; at least we arc aiming
at them. So, if we hit you, 'tis a
sif-'n we aimed at you. The only
conclusion that we can reach is that
you are a knocker. If you want us
to quit aiming at you, turn over a
new leaf and be a booster for the W.
I. S. N. S.

N. B. — Our next editorial spasm
may be about "Boosters;" and again,
it may not. But, nevertheless, if you
want it to apply to you, just push
ahead and smile.

A NEW PAPER

The Patrons' Monthly is a new pa-
per just out which is published by the
Canton schools. Its purpose is to give
the patrons of the public schools of that
city a better knowledge of what the
schools are doing and what they can
do to improve the schools. It is print-
ed on the Canton High School press
and is in the same form as the Can-
ton Pennant. This paper should be
very helpful to the schools and we feel
sure it has a very important mission
to fill.

INTERESTING ARTICLE

An article which should be of inter-
est to the football men is to be found
in The Popular Science Monthly for
October. It deals with training and is
entitled "Smoking and Football
Men", by Dr. Frederick J. Pack of i
the University of Utah. Figures are J
given which prove without a doubt the
harmful effects of smoking upon a foot
ball man.

Another article in the same magaz-
ine and along the same lines is enti-
tled "Stuffy Rooms". This was writ-
ten by Leonard Hill, M. B., F. R. S.,
who gives the stuffy rooms a disreput-
able character and emphasizes greatly
the value of fresh air.

COURIER WELL KNOWN

Just to show how well known the
Courier is, mention must be made of
an article in The Home and School
Journal for October which has been
reprinted from the Courier of last year.

It is about the- e

done hore and also about the

spring term which was originated last

spring. The title v/as as printed in the

Courier, "Can the Normal School

establish closer relations with teachers

already at work?"

OUR EXCHANGES

The following papers have been re-
ceived in our exchange department,
all of which are excellent publications.

The Collegian,

Hillsdale College, Hillsdale.Mich.

The Southwest Standard,
Springfield State Normal,

Springfield, Missouri.
The Northern Illinois,
De Kalb Normal School,

De Kalb, Illinois.
The Verdurette,

William and Vashti College,

Aledo, Illinois.
The Exponent,

Platteville Normal School,

Platteville, Wisconsin.
The Booster,

Eiggsville High School,

Big^sville, Iilincis.
The Rapid Soo.

Sioux Rapids High School,

Sioux Rapids, Iowa.
The Royal Purple.

Whitewater Normal School,

Whitewater, Wisconsin.

The Verduretie is a new paper on
our exchange list which deserves
special notice. It is published bi-week-
ly by the stndents of The William and
Vashti College at Aledo. It is an extra
large four page sheet which is full of
newsy briefs and interesting articles.

A final view of the struggle to come
next Tuesday is summed up in The
Saturday Evening Post for October 26
by Samuel G. Blythe under the title,
"Before The Battle". This will be
interesting to those who are watching
politics at the present time.

THE WESTERN COURIER

a m

an fail a thousand voices proclaim the news, but the voice of the herald of success is losl in the tumult.

A HARD FOUGHT CONTEST

(Continued from page 21.)

The lineup:

Gem City. Normal.

Eliot RE. . . Wade Watson

Davis RT. . .Willard Wat-
son, Coats

Soloing RG. ..Wyne, Mitchell

Riggs C Gill

Ihnen LG. Simonson, capt.

Collier LT. . . .Trego, Smith

Mulin LE . ..Wilson, Thomp-
son
Murphy, capt . . .QB .... Black, Wilson

Penny RH Bogue

Reynolds FB Garrison

Madding LH Cravens

Referee, Dickerson. Umpire,

Neece. Time-keeper, Wetzel.

Score by quarters:

Gem City 12 14—26

Normal 6 — 6

ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFERS

First, a picture, which may be of
their own choice, cost not to exceed
lollars, to the class that shall
win the most points in the contest
described below. (Michael Angelo's
'," wen by the Junior class last
year, is now hanging in the study
|

Second, a pin to the winner of
each cla?s final.

Third, a pin to the winner of inter-
class finals.

Fourth, a reason ticket for "
cents that will inclr.de admiss'on to

1. The Annual Preliminary Con-
test. Dec. 13, 1012.

2. The Final Class Declamatory
Contest, Jan. 31, 1913.

3. Final Class. Contest, Feb. 2 8,
1913.

4. Organ Recital, Nov. 7, 1912.

5. All class preliminaries.

Group A.
(C. S., 9th, 10th, and 11th grades.)
Declamation,
Essay,

Extempore Speaking,
Debate,
Spelling,
Original Story.

Group B.
(12th grade, Jr. and Sr. classes.)
Declamation,
Oration.

Extempore Speaking,
Debate,
Spelling,
Original Story,

YOU KNOCKER, LISTEN !

Borrow a copy of the Courier
and see yourself as others see you.
You may be surprised.

Essay in Group A is equal in points
to oration in Group B.
Points.

Declamation 1 point

Essay 1 % points

Oration 1 % points

Debate 3 points

Extempore Speaking .... 1 ^ points

Spelling 1 % points

Original Short Story ....1% points

The story is limited to 1,200
words.

The essay is limited to 1,000
words.

Each class may choose its repre-
sentatives or try out candidates, by
preliminaries. All entries should be
made to Miss Davis or any other
member of the board.

SCHOOLMASTERS' CLUB

At the meeting of the Schoolmas-
ters' Club in Peoria, Oct. 2 5 and 2 6,
the proposed law for the establish-
ment of vocational schools in Illi-
nois was the subject f consideration.
Although there was some difference
of opinion in regard to the adminis-
tration of these schools, some favor-
ing bards separate from the present
school boards, and others holding
that these schools should be a part
of the present school system, that
body of educators were unanimously
in favor of establishing such schools;
and the very great interest shown
there indicates that the belief is a
conviction that such schools should
be established in Illinois.

The subject was presented at the
Military Tract meeting by Mr. E. G.
Cooley of Chicago.

A resolution to appoint a commit-
tee to work with Mr. Cooley for that
law was passed at Galesburg and
was announced at the Peoria meet-
ing, Supt. H. C. Maxson of Moline,
G. W. Gaylor of Canton, and Bau-
man of Quincy being the committee.

The proposed law in tentative
form has been framed by committees
from the Commercial Club, the As-
sociation of Commerce, the Hamilton
Club, and the Civic Federation, all
of Chicago.

"HOYT HAS BEEN THERE BEFORE"

We notice in the Canton Pennant
that Mr. Guy Hoyt, last year's editor
of the Courier, has made the faculty
basketball team of Canton high
school. Quoting from the Pennant:
"Mr. Hoyt has been there before, and
he certainly showed our boys that
there were others on the floor whose
feet were not glued fast."

This is in reference to a game
played between the faculty and a
student team. We do not know the
final score, but we wish to compli-
ment the faculty upon getting Mr.
Hoyt on their team.

ORGAN RECITAL

The Oratorical Association will
open its course during the year with
an entertatinment. In casting about
to find something that would be of
real value and entertainment for the
students, the association decided up-
on an organ recital. The present
student body has not had an oppor-
tunity to hear the power and com-
pass of the Bayliss memorial organ
tested, and will doubtless respond
well to the undertaking of the ora-
torical board. The recital will be
given by Mr. Franklin L. Stead, head
of the Peoria Musical College, assist-
ed by Mr. Stafford, violinist. The
program will be varied in character
and planned to please a popular au-
dience.

There will be at least four other
numbers o nthe course. A season
ticket may be purchased for fifty
cents. Single admission to any one
number will 'be fifteen cents for stu-
dents and twenay-five cents for all
others.

Y. W. C. A.

The Y. W. C. A. is still holding its
morning prayer meetings. Some of
you seem tc have forgotten the fact.
Come out, girls, and get some new
inspiration for the day. If you have
never been there now is the time to
go. You can help us and we would
like to help you.

We hold our weekly meetings,
as some of you may not have heard,
every Tuesday noon at 12:45 in So-
ciety Hall. Any one can show you the

THE WESTERN COURIER

way. Our meetings have been suc-
cessful, but there is still room for im-
provement especially in attendance.
We have planned for a monthly social
gathering for the girls throughout the
year at which we shall all have jolly
good times. Y. W. C. A. isn't so dry
as some of you might think, but do
not take our word for it. Come out
and see for yourselves. We are sure
you will come again and then again if
not oftener.

HALLOWE'EN PROGRAM

The Platonians give their Hallowe'en
program and reception tomorrow eve.
All the school is invited to come and
enjoy a pleasant evening. The program
promises to be good. Some excellent
music numbers are being prepared
which will be a rare treat. The pro-
gram is as follows:

Overture from Zampa - Herold

Orchestra, Double Pianos and Organ
Macbeth - A Short Story of the Play

Miss Hope McGillivary
Macbeth - The Significance of the
Witches Mr. Hursh

Macbeth - Act IV, Scene I
Orchestra

"The Clever Matchmakers" A Farce

in Two Acts.

"Normal We Sing Thy Praises."

THE NEW DORMITORY

Work upon the Girls' Dormitory was
begun Monday morning. Mr. Connelly
of this city is doing the excavation
work and he is pushing it as fast as
possible. He is working as many teams
as can be secured, so as to soon be
ready for concrete work.

VOLLEY BALL

Quite a number of boys and girls
are taking part in the volley ba.l
tournaments, which are being held
on the courts just north of the print
shop. A tennis tournament is also

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being hi
which it

and furnish goo I, tea

The volley ball teams have induc-
ed in a game or two
football. They seem to

bu< the game to more fun
than science.

Quite a few are already working
on the basketball floor and a good
team is assured, if it is decided to
put out a team. The Athletic Board
is now considering the advisability
of putting out a school team and
will soon decide.

If Christie is Darke is Elsie Whiter

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VOLUME X

MACOMB, ILL., NOV. 7, 1912.

NUMBER VII

SENIORS FORGET TO BE SERIOUS

And under Cover of Masques Even the Fac-
ulty Forget Themselves and Act
Foolish Once More.

Come join us, October thirty-first.
This is the night of Halloween,
When a' the witches may be seen.

Some o' them black,

Some o' them green,
Some o' them like a turkey bean.
Gym Hollow. Eight o'clock.

En Masque.
This invitation, written on brown
paper, and wrapped in a corn husk,
was given to each of the Juniors and
Faculty members last week by the
Seniors. So, when Thursday night
: came, the guests assembled in the
gym to find it entirely transformed.
Jack-o'-lanterns were here and there
and everywhere. Leaves were strewn
upon the floor. Corn shocks were ar-
ranged about the room, all of which
gave the scene an air befitting to
ghosts and goblins. And the ghosts
and goblins were there in numbers.
Circus clowns, ghosts, witches, Indi-
an maidens, and even His Satanic
Majesty was on the scene.

When the guests arrived they were
led through numerous by-ways and
pitfalls, which in reality was "The
Goblins' Labyrinth." They finally
found themeselves in the auditorium,
h short program was givea.
T' on continuing on through the laby-
rinth, thpy came into the gym, where
much fun was had in trying to find
out who the other fellow was.

Then march began for partners
for lunch, the masks were taken off.
and everyone was interested in see-
ing how near correct his or her
guesses were. Refreshments, con-
sisting of ice cream, apple pie,
and coffee, were served, which ended
a very enjoyable evening.

t. WHITE CELEBRATES

We have heard of silver weddings,
trolden weddings, and many other
kinds of weddings, but never before
have we heard of stoneware wed-
dings. Therefore credit must be giv-
* en Mr. White for originating this
new anniversary. It seems to be a

There was a cartoonist named "Cat", =

Who said, "1 am not very fat,
But the pictures I draw,
They conform with the law —

Now what do you think of that?

BOOSTERS!

We believe in you because you
believe in us. No knocker ever
was known to boost the Courier
any.

AMATEURIAN RECEPTION

While the Platonians were enter-
taining the Emersonians Friday
night, the Amateurians were having
a frolic in the gym with the ninth
grade as guests. They first went to
the program given by the Platonians
in the auditorium, and then to th?
gym, where all sorts of grotesque
masks and costumes were displayed.
Here Halloween games and contests
were held, and a general good time
was had. Refreshments were served
consisting of pumpkin pie, cider and
apples. The Amateurs are a jolly
bunch and showed that they could
entertain equally well with the
"Emers" and "Plats."

SEQUEL PICTURES

The order of the day now is to have
pictures taken. The Sequel board is
chiding the Seniors and Juniors be-
cause they are so slow, and the twelfth
grade is next in line for a drubbing.

coincidence that Mr. White's anni-
versary should come on Halloween.
He never told us go, but we judge so
from observations made the next
morning when we noticed that there
was quite an array of crocks and
jars on his porch. Mr. Whte says
that no little boys ever carried those
heavy things there, so who could it
have been?

PLATONIANS GIVE A RECEPTION

A Hallowe'en Program In the Auditorium Is

Followed by Refreshments in

Society Hall.

Friday evening, November 1, the
Platonians gave their annual recep-
tion to the faculty and the Emerso-
nians. As it was the night after Hal-
lowe'en, the reception took the char-
acter of a Hallowe'en program. The
society hall was decorated in green
and white and corn shocks and Jack-
o'-lanterns were arranged about the
room. In the music room a small
booth was erected of corn where the
fortune teller held sway supreme.

The guests assembled in the audi-
torium at 8 o'clock for the program
which lasted about an hour. The
program was as follows:

Overture from Zampa (Herold).
Orchestra, Double Piano and Or-
gan.

Macbeth — A Short Story of the
Play — Miss Hope McGillivray.

Macbeth — The Significance of the
] Witches — Mr. Hursh.

Macbeth — Act IV, Scene I.

Orchestra.

Normal We Sing Thy Praises.

The witch scene from Macbeth was
very realistically acted. Every char-
acter did well and succeeded in pro-
ducing a very ghostly scene. The
characters in this scene were:

A Mysterious Speaker — Onno Wal-
ters.

The Three Witches — Ralph Bish-
op, Fred Sykes, Clarence Clute.

Macbeth — Howard Thompson.

Ghosts — Henry Black, Ralph

Imes, Harold Damron, Richard Mal-
comson, Louis Crawford, Mac Laugh-
lin.

The farce, "The Clever Matchmak-
ers," was a humorous play which was
in spirit with the occasion. It was
well acted and kept the audience in
a roar of laughter. The plot of the
play centered around a Hallowe'en
party, which was elaborately planned,
hut which ended up differently than
was expected. The characters in
this play were as follows:
Benedict Buckley. . . .Ernest McCall

(Continued on page 27.)

THE WESTERN COURIER

Printed in the Manual Arts Print Shop of the
Weslern Illinois State Normal School.

Vol. X Thur., Nov. 7, 1912. No. 7

Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1908,

at the posl office at Macomb, 111., under the

act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Editor Theron B. Chaney

Illustrator Virgil Catlin

Business Manager C. E.White

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"BOOSTERS"

Last week it was said that an edi-
torial on "Boosters" might be pub-
lished this week. So to make our
word good an attempt will be made
to give some of the earmarks of this
oftentimes rare specimen of human-
ity. We call the "Knockers" by the
more dignified name of pessimists for
the sake of preserving their dignity.
So the dignified name for "Booster"
is, of course, an optimist. But
strange to say these people seem to
have no particular preference as to
what they are called. The word, op-
timist, is perhaps too dignified. All
that is necessary to see him smile
and boost a little harder is to just
call him a "Booster."

Then another common character-
istic of a "Booster" is his smile.
One good thing about it is that it is
so contagious. There have been
pessimists who have been known to
smile just because they had to. The
reason was that they got into a place
where knockers are not admitted.
Of course it may have been against
their code of morals for them to
smile, but they just simply had to.
So it is that this smile is a great
help to the "Booster" in his work
and will continue to be so long as the
world goes round.

But worse than any knocker is
what may be called a "pretender."
By this we mean those individuals
who wish to appear as "Boosters"
but their spirit only goes skin deep.
A good name for this class might be
what is known as "hangers-on." In
other words, they try to scrimp
through on a little enthusiasm which
they take the trouble to display at a
football game or an inter-scholastic

> 1 eel . 'II" 11 they ■< i
Mng on the team at its
back. How to get rid of such people
in school here (of course they are
here) is a problem which is hard to
solve. It is up to the Boosters to
make good. It is always "smile and
push a little harder," and the
"Boosters" are doing it. Are you?

Formerly I took intense delight in
Shakespeare, but now for many years
I cannot endure to read a line of poetry;
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it
nauseated me. My mind seems to have
become a kind of machine for grinding
general laws out of large collections of
facts. If I had to live my life again, I
would have made a rule to read some
poetry and listen to some music at
least once every week; for perhaps the
parts of my brain now atrophied would
thus have been kept active thru use.
The loss of these tastes is a loss of
happiness, and may possibly be injur-
ious to the intellect, and more probab-
ly to the moral character, by enfeebl-
ing the emotional part of our nature.

— From Darwin's Life and Letters.

TWELVE YEARS AGO

Tweive years ago last Friday the
first bit of sod was turned beginning
the construction of this building.
Now work has begun on the new dor-
mitory, which goes to show how
much the school has progressed dur-
ing its short life. That it is holding
its own is self-evident, and it de-
pends upon the students here now
and those who follow whether or
not the school will progress as rapid-
ly in the future as in the past.

Y. M. C. A. EXTENSION WORK

A number of the Y. M. C. A. boys
with Mr. Bassett are planning to do
some extension work next Sunday
in a country church south of Colches-
ter. Mr. Ford, who is a student here,
is pastor of this church, and has invit-
ed the boys to go. Mr. Bassett will
speak in the morning and Mr. Bishop
in the evening. Clarence Jones, Ther-

on Chaney, Ralph B;shop and
Walters are working hard on
quartet selections which they w.
at that time.

"AUS NAH UND FERN"

A unique and Interesting
zine has been added to to our ex-
change lists entitled "Aus Xah und
Fern." This paper is published four
times a year by the Francis Parker
School of Chicago, and is printed en-
tirely in German. It has contribu-
tor;; from all parts of Germany and
America; is well illustrated and
printed, and should be valuable to
every second and third year German
student. The paper may be seen
upon the exchange shelves in the li-
brary.

FROM GALESBURG

In one of the issues of the Galesburg
Budget, we notice that Wilson, Taft
and Roosevelt clubs have been formed
we suppose to elect their favorites. It
is now to be assumed that at least two
of the aforesaid clubs are arguing why
their respective candidates should have
been elected. We also notice that a
straw ballot was planned, but we failed
to see any results printed.

IN CHAPEL

Monday morning in Chapel we were

entertained by the girls of the fifth,

sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.

Miss Shamel has been working with

them for some time and they gave

several good numbers which were well

received. The program was as follows:

Spinning Song Reinecke

Swing, Cradle Swing Cooper

Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes

17th Century lullaby.
Baby's Boat Gaynor

I Know a Bank Horn

The discussion centered upon am-
bition and dates.

Miss Davis,- "It must be awful to
go thru this word without — "

"A date", chimed in Henry Black.

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SAY, BOOSTER !

Lend your paper to your knock-
er neighbor and get him in good
humor. A smile will rest his face.

PLATONIANS GIVE RECEPTION

(Continued from page 25.)

Mrs. Benedict Buckley

Sarah Stocking

Agnes Hunt Hazel Hoxworth

Charles Legree Louis Switzer

Everett Evans Claude Wilson

Owen Reynolds Theron Chaney

Friends of Agnes Hunt. . . Hildreth
McFeeters, Helen Miner, Enid
Horrell, Dorothy Stinson,

Helen Marrs, Gertrude Allison

Servant Girl Pauline Royer

After the program the guests ad-
journed to the Music Room where
fortunes were told, and music was
played on the Victor. Then refresh-
ments were servel in Society Hall,
which consisted of pumpkin pie, a la
mode and cider. Then at 10:15 the
lights blinked, ending a very pleasant
and delightful evening.

CRUEL

"The other class got fifteen A's,

If you can get as many
When next we have a German quiz,

I'll give the class a penny."

It sounded fine; we all agreed

To study with a vim.
We got a cash box wide and deep

To put our pennies in.

We worked and worked, both night
and day;

Those A's were awful fickle,
But finally we found we had

A solitary nickel.

Miss Olson was the treasurer,
And kept the money handy;

So we just instructed her
To buy for us some candy.

With kindly grace she acquiesced,
And took our hard-earned wealth;

She bought the sweets, but O, ye
gods!
She ate them all herself.

WONDERS WILL HAPPEN

The game which the second team
was to have played with Augusta
Saturday was called off by Augusta
at the eleventh hour. So, to please
the second team men, who had been

working hard all week, the first team
played them Friday evening after
si'hool. And here's where the won-
der comes. The second squad won
by a score of 6-0. Of course the first
squad men had plenty of excuses for
losing, and we doubt not that if giv-
en another chance they would make
a clean sweep with the seconds.

FOOTBALL GAME

Another football game was played
upon the Normal campus last Satur-
day afternoon by the Macomb High
School against Avon High School.
The visitors were very light and were
unable to make any gains against the
heavier Macomb team. Macomb used
the forward pass successfully and
also made consistent gains with mass
plays. The final score was 35-0 fa-
vor of Macomh.

The Normal team had no game
scheduled for Saturday, and so are in
good condition for the remaining
three games of the season. The next
game is with Quincy High School day
after tomorrow, and the team is
working hard for a victory.

SPORE AT OPERA HOUSE

Secretary of the Department of
Agriculture, James Wilson, spoke at
the opera house Saturday afternoon
and night. Quite a large crowd heard
him, in it being several students. He
spoke in favor of Mr. Taft's candidacy,
and incidentally gave several phases
of the work of the Department of Agri-
culture which were very interesting
indeed.

A LIST OF OFFICERS OF VARIOUS
ORGANIZATIONS IN SCHOOL

The following is a list of the of-
ficers of the various classes and or-
ganizations in school so far as they
have been selected. The class officers
are elected for the year, while the
officers of the literary societies are
elected for only one quarter.

Ninth Grade.

President — Sam Eggleston.
Vice-President — Paul Botts.
Secretary-Treasurer — Mary Rod-
gers.

Oratorical Board — William Mor-

COME OUT and see the game
Saturday, Nov. 9, 1912. Quincy
H. S. will be defeated by our team
on that date. Come out and cheer
the home boys.

gan, Ruby Cully.

Athletic Board — Paul Eakle.
Courier Board — Helen Binnie.

Tenth Grade.

President — Mitchell Lefler.
Vice-President — Ruth Cannon.
Secretary-Treas. — Ruby Mullen.
Oratorical Board — Ira Burnham,
Miriam Mull.

Courier Board — Wkde Adams.

Eleventh Grade.

President — Lee Hoyt.
Vice-President — Leona Gulp.
Secretary — 'Ray Reedy.
Treasurer — Eli Smith.
Oratorical Board — Hunter Rod-
gers, Anna Allison.

Athletic Board — Wade Watson.
Courier Board — Hester Sexton.

Twelfth Grade.

President — Henry Black.
Vice-President — Claude Wilson.
Sec'y-Treas. — Isabel Brooking.
Oratorical Board — Harlow Wyne,
Theron Chaney.

Athletic Board — Joe Trego.
Courier Board — Hazel Hoxworth.

Juniors.

President — Sarah Stocking.

Vice-President — Dean Beacom.

Secretary — Ethel Thompson.

Treasurer — Freda Welborn.

Oratorical Board — Wayne Town-
ley, Faye Claycomb.

Athletic Boad — Dorothy Stinson,
Virgil Catlin.

Courier Board — Dorothy Stinson.

Senior

President — Wayne Wetzel.

Vice-President — Alice Crabill.

Secretary-Treasurer — Ralph Imes.

Oratorical Board — Howard Thomp-
son, Helen Martin.

Athletic Board — Ross Stephens,
Lela Terrill.

Courier Board — Dora Easum.

Rmersonians.

President — Harlow Wyne.
Vice-President — Louise Ellison.
Secretary — Freda Haffner.
Treasurer — Lora Wilson.
Sergeant at Arms — Hunter Rod-
gers.

THE WESTERN COURIER

Chorister — Kulalie Baker.

Platoiiians.
President — Onno Walters.
Vice-President — Ruth Cochran.
Secretary — Hildreth McFeeters.
Assistant Secretary — Helen Marrs.
Treasurer — Ross Stephens.
Sergeant at Arms — Louis Switzer.
Chorister — Thercra Chaney.

Y. M. C. A.
President — Theron Chaney.
Vice-President — Herschel Mitchell.
Secretary — Ernest McCall.
Treasurer — Onno Walters.

Y. W. C. A.
President — Lora Wilson.
Vice-President — Hildreth McFeet-
ers.

Secretary — Hazel Hoxworth.
Treasurer — Ruth Cochran.
Athletic Boarl — To be elected.
Oratorical Board — To he elcted.
Amateur Club — To be elected.

Athletic Association.
President — 'Virgil Catlin.
Vice-President — Harlow Wyne.
Secretary-Treas. — R. M. Ginnings.

Oratorical Association.
President — Theron Chaney.
Vice-President — Wayne Townley.
Secretary-Treas. — Helen Martin.

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VOLUME X

MACOMB, ILL., NOV. 14, 1912.

NUMBER VIII

AN EXCELLENT ORGAN RECITAL

Mr. Franklin Stead, Assisted by Two Other
Members of Peoria Musical College Fac-
ulty, Delights a Large Audience.

The first number of the course of-
fered by the Oratorical Association
was given Thursday night, Novem-
ber 7, 1912, in the Auditorium. A
very large crowd was present of both
students and townspeople. The re-
cital was a success in every way. M.v.
Stead, who is director of the Peoria
Musical College is an artist of ex-
ceptional ability. His numbers were
well rendered and were well received
by the appreciative audience.

Mr. Stafford, also of the Peoria
Musical College, assisted Mr. Stead
with violin numbers which were also
well received. He responded gra-
ciously to the applause with a num-
ber of encores.

Miss Sheppard from the same
school presided at the piano and con-
tributed her share to the evening's
enjoyment. The Pastorale by
Guilmant, which was given on the
organ, piano, and violin, deserves
special mention. This number was
so well liked that it was repeated in
response to hearty applause.

Financially the entertainment was
a arreat success. Over one hundred
dollars were derived, which will put
the Oiatorical Association upon a
solid footing for the rest of the year.
The program was as follows:

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Bach
Overture, Stradella . . . Flowtow-Bach

Organ.
Prize Song from "Der Meister-

singer" Wagner

Fafalla (The Butterfly) Sauret

Prayer in F Barowski

Fanfare m . . . . Lemmens

The Little Shepherd Debussy

Tocatta in G Dubois

Organ.

Pastoraie Guilmant

Organ, Piano and Violin.

Andante and Allegro Guilmant

Dreams, Seventh Sonata. .Guilmant
Funeral March and Chant Seraph-
ique Guilmant

Organ.
Romanze and Finale from Second
Concerto Wieniawski

Violin.
Evensong Johnson

Theron Chaney, Assisted by a
Friend, Tries to Sit on a One-
legged Stool.

"A KITCHEN COMEDY"

Miss Bayliss is very busily engaged
this week in helping the Twelfth Grade,
Juniors and Seniors in arranging their
programs for the winter quarter. As
usual there are some conflicts in the
program, and it is being arranged early
so that the work may go right on with-
out interruption at the beginning of the
quarter.

Grand Offertoire in D Batiste

QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATED

Thursday afternoon, November 7,
the Emersonians gave a very inter-
esting program in the auditorium.
This was their regular meeting, and
a special invitation was given to the I
entire school. The program was in-
teresting from start to finish. The
Pantomime, "A Kitchen Comedy,"
was the cause of much laughter and
applause. The full program was as
follows:
Piano Solo, The Scarf Dance

Isabelle Brooking

Original Story Mamie Thomson

Pantomime, "A Kitchen Comedy" —
The Cast.

The Girl Florence Mickey

Her Mother Olive Gash

Her Brother George Dunn

Suitor No. 1 Hunter Rodgers

Suitor No. 2 William Stookey

Suitor No. 3 Wayne Townley

Suitor No. 4 Howard Harding

A Grocery Boy Dean Beacom

Our Boys "Get together" and Play a 13-0

Game in Which Every Man on the

Team Stars.

The Normal team has demonstrat-
ed that it can come back by defeating
the Quincy High School last Satur-
day 13-0. This was the most spec-
tacular and exciting game this sea-
son. Quincy's team was moderately
heavy, but depended on two or three
men who made most of their gains.
On the other hanl, every man on the
home team starred. There were more
brilliant plays made by more men
during the game than any other
g?me of the season. Bogue and
Stephens at half played good games.
Stephens made good gains through
Quincy's line and Bogue did well on
defensive work and in receiving and
intercepting passes. Garrison at full
byck made consisitent gains on mass
plays. Watson and Erwin at ends
made long runs, as did Wilson at
quarterback. Willard Watson made
good gains on tackle bucks, and Tre-
£o starred on defensive work, mak-
ing many good tackles. Gill at cen-
ter and Simonson and Cravens at
guards were bulwarks in the line,
and Quincy could not gain through
these men. Forward passes were
worked to perfection, which won
many yards for the team.

Captain Merkle of Quincy won the
toss and chose to defend the east
goal. Bogue kicked off to Merkle,
who carried the ball bacikabout fifteen
yards. Quincy made several yards
during the first five minutes. Then
the Normal boys found their feet
when Bogue intercepted a forward
pass. But the team lost the ball on
downs and Quincy marched toward
our goal, Merkle starring.

During the second quarter, Wilson
at quarterback made long runs
around end, and the forward pass
was used for good gains. Erwin and
Bogue made spectacular runs and
Garrison came in for his share of the
praise on defensive work.

Quincy kicked off at the beginning
rif the second half. Owing to a fum-
ble Quincy got the ball. The Normal

(Continued on page 30.)

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Vol. X Thur., Nov. 14, 191 2. No. 8

Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1908,

at the poft office at Macomb, 111., under the

adt of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Editor Theron B. Chaney

Ass't Editor Reba Van Etttn

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Illustrator Virgil Catlin

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APPRECIATION

Did you ever stop to think about
the meaning of the word "apprecia-
tion?" If you look in the dictionary
you may find that it means a true
estimation of the beauty, merit and
value of the things about you. There
are few things of beauty which are
not of some value and merit. And
likewise there are few things of
value and merit which are not beau-
tiful. So appreciation means more
than the mere recognition of the
value or beauty of a thing. One
must have respect for the beauty and
value of those things about him.
Here is where many of us are lacking
in our appreciation. We forget that
beautiful and wholesome surround-
ings are essential to a healthy envi-
ronment. And we also forget that
the crime of today originates among
vile and unclean surroundings. This
was all taken into consideration in
the construction of this building.
The materials used were inspected
as to their value and merits, and
above all, beauty. The campus was
also laid out in the most beautiful
way possible. And yet some of us
do not appreciate these surround-
ings in that we fail to show respect
for them. Is it any wonder various
abuses are becoming evident? And
is there any way in which this lack
of appreciation can 'be prevented?
One good remedy suggests itself, and
that is that each of us should be a
committee of one to see that the
things about us are properly cared
for and respected.

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"SUPERIOR SCHOOL"

The following article, entitled
"Best Country School in Illinois Is
Found," along with a picture of the
school mentioned, appeared in last
Sunday's Chicago Record-Herald:

Monmouth, 111., Nov. 8. — When
Francis G. Blair, superintendent of
public instruction, tacked above the
door a sign bearing the words "Su-
perior School" he conferred distin-
guished honors upon the Hedgepeth
district in this county. He ranked
it as the best country school in the
entire State of Illinois, the first to
receive this distinction. Superin-
tendent Blair delivered an address to
the educators and district residents.
The event was celebrated with an
all-day demonstration. The term,
"Superior School," is a new title or
degree in Illinois. Accompanying
the title is a diploma setting forth
the requirements of the state depart-
ment of education.

The Hedgepeth schoolhouse is a
brick structure, attractively designed
and surrounded by fine elm trees.
There is one large school room with
high ceiling, artistically tinted walls,

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well Lighted, ventilated and heated.
The sf ats for the pupils are all ad-
justable and of various sizes. The
modern building and equipment were
provided almost entirely on the ini-
tiative of the directors. The teacher
this year was Miss Eula Cordell, a
graduate of the Western State Nor-
mal University. She modestly gives
much of the credit for the great suc-
cess of this school to the board of
directors and the people of the
Hedgepeth community. She says the
directors and residents must be mod.-
ern and progressive in their ideas to
attain success. The school has
adopted the idea of free text-books
for the children, and this fact has at-
tracted many more pupils han other-
wise. Since children are necessary
to have a good school, Miss Cordell
maintains that the money invested
in free text-books returns the larg-
est results in that direction. The di-
rectors believe that first-class equip-
ment is important, and, while a good
teacher may do well in an old build-
ing, and with meager equipment, she
is evidently prepared to use to the
best advantage the highest quality of
tools and the finest of buildings.

THE COURIER AND POLITICS

Now that the election is over and
the country is well started on the
high road to prosperity, or as others
would have it, is going to the dogs-,
we wonder if the newspapers have as
hard a time getting copy as the Cou-
rier does. Of course the Courier
doesn't dabble in politics but those
of our readers who are happy over
the election seem to have forgotten
everything else and are resting easy.
On the other hand, the Progressives
and Republicans are so troubled over
the awful fate which the Nation is
soon to meet that they have no time
to contribute to the Courier. This
is indeed a sad state of affairs. We
feel sometimes like declaring our-
selves politically in order to fill up
the editorial column. But owing to
differences of opinion among the
members of the staff it is feared that
a split might occur and there would
be no Courier. So in order to avert
this awful calamity the best thing
you can do is to get busy and write
something interesting for the Cou-

rier. If you can't write anything
draw a cartoon. Every little bit
helps, and it all goes for a good
cause.

A very artistic piece of printing
has just been finished in the Courier
print shop. Lincoln's Gettysburg ad-
dress has been printed for Miss Da-
-. is' English classes. It is nrinted on
a gray-c-olored cardboard with a
f harming red border and illuminated^
initial letter. This is, perhaps, tha
nicest niece of work done on the
Courier press this year, and the head
],respr.?an deserves much praise for
the excellence of the work.

Thursday night after the recital
the faculty entertained Mr. Stead.'i
Mr. Stafford and Miss Sheppard at an]
informal tea in the Domestic Science
rooms. Tea and wafers were served,
and a very enjoyable hour was
spent.

THE WESTERN COURIER

Every Day I Am Building a Character, and the Strength of the Structure Is Tested by Each Day's Work.

{U1NCY HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATED

(Continued from

29.)

line stiffened and held the visitors for
downs. Wilson made forty yards on
an end run, and Stevens made fifteen
yards through the line. Garrison
was then called for a line buck and
went over for the first touchdown.
Bogue failed at goal. Score, Normal
6, Quincy 0.

During the rest of the third quar-
ter and all of the fourth quarter our
boys played an offensive game. Steph-
ens went across the line for the sec-
ond touchdown and Bogue kicked
goal. During the last minute of play
one of Quincy's men intercepted a
forward pass and started toward our
goal with a clear field ahead. Gar-
rison and Watson, however, by some
good sprinting succeeded in stopping
him just as the timekeeper's whistle
blew, and the game ended with the
score 13-0 in favor of the Purple and
Gold. The lineup follows:

Quincy. Normal.

Pullman re. .Wade, Watson

Brinton rt.Willard Watson

Wheeler rg. .Cravens, Moore

Burbridge c Gill

Whipple lg. Simonson, Capt.

Gay It Trego

Grieser le.Erwin, L.Switzer

Dunbar qb Wikon

Emery rh Bogue

Blackburn rb Garrison

M. Switzer
Merkle, Capt. . . .lh Stephens

Referee, Dickerson. Umpire, Monk.
Head linesman and timekeeper, Wil-
son.

Score by quarters:

Quincy 0—

Normal 00 6 7 — 13

INDIAN PAPERS

Two new papers have been received
on our exchange list this week. One is
"The Carlisle Arrow" from the U. S.
Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvan-
ia, and the other the "The Indian
Leader" from the U.S. Indian School
at Lawrence, Kansas. They are both
printed in much the same style as the
"Courier" and show to a remarkable
degree the advancement of the origi-
nal American.

A "PEP" MEETING

Friday morning chapel exercises
began by singing the song, "Normal,
We Sing Thy Praises " Then the
prayer and Gloria, followed by the vari-
ous announcements. Then to the tune
of, "What's The Matter With Father,"
the football veterans marched in and
took seats upon the stage in place of
the sombre and dignified faculty. A
few yells were given by the student
body, and then Mr. Simonson, captain
of the team, announced the program.
He had a number of papers in a hat
upon which were written subjects for
speeches. Captain Simonson reserved
the right to choose the speakers from
the audience, and called on Mr. Hursh
first who drew the subject, "Whether
or not there is a habit of winning or
losing." He responded ably, and was
followed by Mr. Finley who spoke on
the subject, "Whether or not football
pays." Miss Colby followed with an
extended discourse upon the grave
question of the danger and prevalence
of tuberculosis among football players.
She suggested as a good remedy a
banquet to be given sometime between
Thanksgiving and New Years. Miss
Davis was given the subject, "Should
the members of the faculty become
enthused over football?" Miss Davis
responded with an interesting and
laughable story. Mr. Elliott Fisher, a
former football star spoke on "Normal-
ism Conquers". Mr. Onno Walters
ended the speechmaking by discussing
the question — Resolved, that it doesn't
pay to get excited at a football game.
Then more yells and we are sure
that the enthusiam created at this hour
was largely instrumental in helping the
team to defeat Quincy High School.

There was a young man named Knabe ;

He was somewhat smaller than Dobby.
He sure is a bird,
And we often have heard

That the maidens all think him quite
nobby.

Mary, Louise, and you'll be "Happy"
Croxton.

MORNING PRAYER MEETINGS

The morning prayer meetings of this
week devoted to the "Week of
Prayer" should not be missed, as it is
known as the biggest and broadest
movement in the United States. So
come out, girls, in the morning and
hear what Miss Grote has to tell you
about "The Parable of the Mustard
Seed". We know it will be of some
benefit to you.

The past four mornings our leaders
have been as follows: Lora Wilson,
Sarah Stocking, Miss Cooper, and
Ruth Ralston. These meetings have
all been very interesting to those who
have been there, and those who bo
not attend are missing much.

Miss Lucy Pearson, our student
secretary, is expected soon as, we
have heard that she was at Old Nor-
mal last week.

The Y. W. C. A. girls are at home
to the rest of the girls and ladies of
the Faculty, from four to five P. M.
on the first Wednesday of each mon-
th. Every girl come, bring a friend,
and get better acquainted.

Y. M. C. A. EXTENSION

Ralph Bishop, Clarence Jones,
Onno Walters, and Theron Chaney
did some extension work last Sunday
at the Bethel Baptist church, six
miles south of Colchester, of which
Mr. Alfred Ford is pastor. This is
an enterprising little church, and the
people were very entertaining. Quite
a large crowd was present in the
morning and heard Mr. Bishop give
his address, "The Christ of Labor."
The boys also gave two quartet se-
lections which were well received.

At the evening service the church
vas crowded to the doors. Mr. Bas-
sett, who gave a lecture Saturday
right at a nearby school house, was
present and gave his illustrated lec-
ture on Japan. His lecture was very
interesting and was much enjoyed
bv all present. The quartet gave two
selections in the evening also. After
the night services a six-mile drive
was made to Colchester, and the boys
airived in Macomb on the 10:55
train, feeling that they had profited
by the trip and knowing that they
had had a very enjoyable time.

THE WESTERN COURIER

DRAWING EXHIBIT

A collection of drawings and paint-
ings is now on exhibition in the Art
Room. These drawings were all made
by pupils at Galesburg from the first
to the eighth grades. Some very ex-
cellent landscape studies are shown
both in chalk and water colors. This
collection was on exhibition at Gales-
burg during the meeting of The Milita-
ry Tract Educational Association. It is
to be exhibited in several towns in
this part of the state and will go from
here to Geneseo.

Miss Buckner is arranging for an-
other art exhibit to be shown here the
first week in December. The pictures
will be supplied by the National Art
Supply Company of Chicago of which
Mr. S. L. Smith is manager. Mr. Smith
will be remembered as having charge
of the art department here a few years
ago. These pictures will be shown in
Society Hall and some of them will be
for sale.

NEW MEMBERS OF COURIER STAFF

We are pleased to announce the
election of Miss Reba Van Etten as
assistant editor of the Courier. Miss
Van Etten is a member of the Junior
Class and is a graduate of the Ma-
comb High School from which she
comes well recommended by the
English Department. The Courier is
glad to welcome such an excellent ad-
dition to the staff.

Mr. Roy Sallee, who is teaching in
the biology department, has been el-
ected Alumni editor. Mr. Sallee is a
member of the class of 1911 and is
well fitted for his duties. All Alumni
contributions should be sent to Mr.
Sallee.

THANKSGIVING PROGRAM

The Platonians and Einersonians
ere planning a very charming pro-
gram for the night of Tuesday, No-
vember 2 6. This is to be a joint
meeting, and the program is to be in
spirit with the holiday the following

BLOUNT'S
SHOES
ARE
BETTER

WESTERN ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL =
WINTER QUARTER OPENS DEC. 9, 1912.

ENROLLMENT FALL QUARTER
Normal and Academic Students (In Residence) - - 4 1 6

Correspondence Students 33

Extension Students - - - - - 379

Elementary School Pupils - - - 1 80

Total 11008

John Ai-

numbers will
good. Miea Shan el hi -
bog for some time with the
the songs. .Miss Davis will ha\
charge of the staging an
costuming, and Miss Larrikin i;- v>or>
ing out the drills and rhythms. Th:
.v to be an open meeting to which a
the students and townspeople are ii
v ited.

Mr. Dickerson, (in History 8) Is this

nation of ours going to the d 1?

Happy Croxton - No, to the dGgs.

Speaking of tests, you should ask
the twelfth grade students how much
they got in a Physics tests last Tues-
day.

P. D. ROARK,

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VOLUME X

MACOMB, ILL., NOV. 21, 1912.

NUMBER IX

ATTENDED CONFERENCE OF
NORMAL SCHOOL PRESIDENTS

Mr. Morgan Reports a Successful Meeting

at Carbondale and Highly Praises the

Treatment Receivid There.

Mr. Morgan has just returned
from a conference of the Normal
School Presidents of the State of
Illinois, and reports that all the
State Schools were represented, and
also that Mr. W. B. Owen, president
ot Teachers' College of the city of
Chicago, was in attendance. This
meeting was for the purpose of vis-
iting the Southern Illinois State Nor-
mal University at Carbondale, and
also for a conference between the
representatives of the State institu-
tions. The school at Carbondale is
enjoying the largest attendance in
its history for the fall term, and is
more fortunate than the other
schools in that the proportion of men
and women in attendance is better
balanced. There are about forty per
cent men and sixty per cent women
there. The forenoon of the first day
was spent in visiting classes and in
attendance at chapel, where each vis-
itor was asked to give a short talk.
At noon they were invited to lunch-
eon, served by the Domestic Science
department. This was a very enjoy-
able affair and illustrated the prac-
tical side of the department. The
menu was well selected, and perfect-
ly prepared. After luncheon, the
irembers met in conference, and
ninny questions were discussed tend-
ing toward more uniformity in cours-
es of study, and fees and tuition. Af-
ter the conference, which lasted until
late in the afternoon, an automobile
trip was taken over the city and the
historic spots, which are numerous,
in Carbondale were pointed out to
the visitors, who manifested much
interest. Later the party was taken
to the home of Dr. Parkinson, who
is the president of this school, where
they enjoyed a delightful dinner pre-
pared by Mrs. Parkinson and her
daughter. A recption had been plan-
ned for the visitors in t.ie evening
tc which members of the faculty,
their wives and friends were invited.
After a pleasant hour, those invited

(Continued on page 35.)

TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE

Our Boys Defeat Quincy High School Again

in an Exciting and Hard Fought Game

with a Score of 6 -• 0.

Saturday, the regulars went to
Quincy for their first out of town
game of the season. This was for a
return game with Quincy High
[ School, and was the first time that
the Normal ever played a return
game during the same season. A
week ago last Saturday Quincy met
defeat at our hands by the score of
13-0. This time the score was 6-0
in our favor. The game was very
hard-fought throughout. Both teams
played good games, although Quincy
was somewhat weak in the line. Our
boys made the longest gains by full-
back and tackle bucks through
Quincy's line. The forward pass was
not used very much during the game.
Bogue got away with the only suc-
cessful forward pass, making a gain
of fifty yards. During the first half
the game see-sawed back and forth,
neither side making consistent t,ains.
Heavy penalties kept the . Normal
boys out of striking distance of
Quincy's goal line and kept the score
low.

During the third quarter the Nor-
mal boys carried the ball down the
field within easy striking distance
and Garrison carried the ball over

(Continued on page 35.)

AN EXCELLENT ADDRESS ON
COUNTRY LIFE PROBLEMS

The Open Country Club Has a Meeting and

Provides an Excellent Speaker in the

Personof G. Hf. Conn of Woodstock.

Monday afternoon an Open Coun-
try Club meeting was held in the
auditorium, beginning at the 1:30
period. All of the students attend-
ed, occupying their regular seats in
the assembly room.

Mr. G. W. Conn, Jr., of Woodstock,
McHenry county, gave an address.
Mr. Conn is well known in education-
al and agricultural circles. He has
been actively engaged in agricultur-
al work in Kansas and Illinois.

Mr. Conn's address was entitled,
"Country School and Country Life,"
and dealt mainly with the problem
of making the farm of today so at-
tractive that the boy and girl will
have no desire to leave it. Several
reasons were given why the young
people of today go to the city. One
of them was, that there are not the
opportunities held out to them for
social life that is to be had in the city.
The country churches and schools
are not holding out to the young peo-
ple the necessary social activities
which sweeten the daily toil of the
farm. The country home of fifty
years ago was much used as a social
gathering place. Today it is not
worse, but it is entirely different.
There is a need for social settlements
in the country as well as in the city,
around which the social life of the
country might center.

Today we should not only keep
the boy on the farm, but we should
f 'oster the mental and social life of
the farm so that the boy is held
there. Country life should not be a
life of drudgery, but should be a life
of enjoyment and pleasure.

Another reason why the young
people leave the farm today is the
introduction of labor-saving machin-
ery. Today one machine will do
what three or four boys could do a
few years ago. Therefore, there is
less need of them on the farm than
heretofore, and they seek a living
in the city. And again, the teacher
of the country school today does not

(Continued on page 35.)

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"QUITTERS"

To be successful in school, as well
as in after life, one must strive to do
tomorrow's work just a little better
than today's. No one should be sat-
isfied with today's accomplishments.
If you didn't make a good recitation
today, that very fact should spur you
on to a better one tomorrow. If you
made a good recitation today, do not
stop with that. Do not think that
you can rest easy for three or four
days because you starred today.
There is an old adage that is not
without some truth, and which reads
like this: "It is better to do poor
work and be unsatisfied than to do
good work and be satisfied." If you
are satisfied with your good work,
you are nothing more than a "quit-
ter." A "quitter" was never known
to advance very far in this world.
It is to be hoped that there are no
quitters here in school, and yet there
arc some who seem perfectly satis-
fied with what they have done. Some
others have been accused of being
"quitters" behind the scenes. We do
not know whether this accusation is
to be taken literally or figuratively,
but we hope nottooliterally. The man
to whom this might apply, figurative-
ly, is the man who puts on the bold
front before the world, but is at
heart a quitter where no one can
see. The man who makes a fair and
square fight in the open is the one
who commands respect. But the one
who resorts to trickery to accomplish
the desired end and then hides for
fear of being discovered, is not only
a quitter, but even a coward. So
don't be a quitter. If you advocate

Dean Swift once said, "It is un-
lucky to be obliged to retaliate the
injuries of authors, whose works are
so soon forgotten that we are in dan-
ger of appearing the first aggress-
ors." This statement is very appli-
cable this week if you care to insert
the word cartoonists instead of au-
thors. It is indeed unlucky to have
to retaliate, because we do not like
to be thought of as the first aggres-
sor when in reality we are just get-
ting even. Of course last week's car-
toon will not last long, because it
concerns some things of very un-
stable equilibrium (we mean a one-
legged milk stool). How this milk
stool ever came to have but one leg
is not known. It might be explained
by some biology students that this
particular milk stool came by its one
leg through the process of evolution,
as propounded by the aforesaid bi-
ology students. This explanation
may or may not be accepted, but

nevertheh

If it hadn't been for this p;

stool, our clever cartoonist would

have been at a loss for a suitable

subject for his weekly prod

Then again, we owe very much to
our kind friends who so abh .
us in going through all the
naetic evolutions which accompany
the difficult feat of falling from a
one-legged stool. It is indeed grati-
fying to know that the Courier has
some friends who have the interest
of their school publication enough at
heart to cause them to go through
extra exertions in order to furnish
material for our cartoonist.

If this sounds like a mystery to
any of you readers, you are respect-
fully asked to take one last fond
look at last week's cartoon, before
it is to be forever forgotten. And
please don't think that this is the
first aggression, because it is not. It
is only a retaliation.

a principle which is just, stand up
and fight for it. And if it is just,
you will not be afraid to defend it.
If it is unjust, you admit it by the
way in which you defend it. The
moral of it all is, Don't be satisfied
with y